Got nine million nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine tears to go
And then I don't know if I'll be over you
The sun didn't shine this morning it's been raining the whole day through
Suddenly without warning you found somebody new
That's when the first tear came falling from my eyes
I'm beginning to feel the pain seeing nothing but cloudy skies
Got nine million nine hundred...
Well I'll be over you
You're out tonight with your new love I'm far far from your mind
Trying to get over you love chould take a whole lifetime
I can't believe you could want anybody else so no one could take my place
At least that's what I keep telling myself as the tears fall down my face
Got nine million nine hundred...
I'll be over you
Got nine million nine hundred...
IF SHE JUST HELPS ME (GET OVER YOU)
WRITERS DON WILLIAMS, ALLEN REYNOLDS
It may not make me tremble,
The soft touch of her hand
But she won't break my heart
The way you do
So I'm gonna try to give her
The best love that I can
If she just helps me get over you.
If she just picks me up when I get down
If she's there when the memories
Walk around
Maybe someday
I'll love her
As much as I love you
If she just helps me get over you.
I don't suppose that lovin'
Will ever be the same
But she wants me
The way I wanted you
So I'm gonna try to give her
The best love that I can
If she just helps me get over you.
If she just picks me up when I get down
If she's there when the memories
Walk around
Maybe someday
I'll love her
As much as I love you
IF LOVE GETS THERE BEFORE I DO
WRITERS DICKEY LEE, KERRY CHATER
RECORDED BY DON WILLIAMS
Another twenty miles and I'm halfway there,
Another twenty miles and I'm running scared
It's a beautiful night and I should be there
I know you are tired of waiting
And I know you are tired of hesitating
If love gets there before I do,
Darling don't you take it.
If love gets there before I do,
Darling don' t you do it, no don't you do it
I know you're hearing line from those other guys
Trying to wear you down under starry sky
But you know that I want you to just hold on
I know you are tired of waiting
And I know you are tired of hesitating
If love gets there before I do,
Darling don't you take it.
If love gets there before I do,
I've just seen a face I can't forget the time or place that we'd just met
She's just the girl for me and I want all the world to see we'd met uh uh uh uh uh
Had it been another day I might have looked the other way I had never been aware
And as it is I dream of her tonight na na na na na na
Falling yes I'm falling and she keeps calling me back again
Falling yes I'm falling and she keeps calling me back again
[ guitar ]
Had it been another day I might have looked the other way I had never been aware
And as it is I dream of her tonight na na na na na na
I have never known the likes of this I've been alone
And I have missed things and kept out of sight
But other girls were never quite like this la la la la la la
Falling yes I'm falling...
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 never seen a night so long when time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud to hide its face and cry
[ steel ]
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
And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry
Yes I'll buy you a drink if you'd like me to I might even dance a slow one with you
Lord knows you're a looker and honey what's more
It's not hard to see what you're looking for
You're as tempting a woman as I've ever seen
But there's someone in Tulsa who's trusting in me
She's the mother of my children I'm the rock she leans on
So thank you but no thank you I'll be leaving alone
[ steel ]
As we dance in the shadows you're holding me tight
I can feel the invitation I see in your eyes
And the soft light and the music and the wine's rosey glow
Ain't making it easy for me to say no
Cause you're as tempting a woman...
I use the soup to wash the dirt off my face
I'll write with pencil so then I can't erase
But what's to do when someone's taking my place with you with you
I know to stop when the light turns to red and when it rains I know to cover my head
But what's to do when I wished I were dead over you over you over you
La la la la la la la la la la la la let 'em to ride off tomorrow
La la la la la la la la la la la la hopin' to wash off the sorrow
I hope to find that the world was not there
It seems to me when I'm down you did not care
And my ambition vanished into thin air long with you with you
I saw my lady walking by the river yesterday
She was picking flowers singin' songs of love along the way
Seeing her by moonlight tells me that her hair is shining yellow
Picking daisies nervously waiting by the river for her fellow
Think about her in my dreams see her through the misty scenes
All I know it really means I love her
Will she ever leave me she hasn't said she has somebody new
Or will she come and take my hand walk me down along the river too
[ steel ]
All I know it really means I love her
Will she ever leave me...
I saw my lady walking by the river yesterday
I don't have a gold mine in Alaska and this won't be the year I fly to Rome
I don't have oilwells in Oklahoma oh but I have a kingdom I call home
I don't have an army in my kingdom but I don't have to fight my wars alone
The love of my woman's all I need to help me rule the kingdom I call home
Though the Queen of the castle wears a plain cotton dress
And the little princess plays with paper dolls
While the keeper of the kingdom is rich in happiness
And the world is locked outside the palace walls
This world may never know I walk its valleys
And history won't carve my name in stone
But when my children are grown they'll remember
There was love in the kingdom I called home
A little bitty tear let me down spoiled my act as a clown
I had it made up not to make a frown but a little bitty tear let me down
When you said you were leaving tomorrow that today was our last day
I said there'd be no sorrow that I'd laugh when you walked away
But a little bitty tear...
[ ac.guitar ]
I said I'd laugh when you left me full of funny as you went out the door
That I'd have another one a waiting I'd wave goodbye as you go
But a little bitty tear...
[ ac.guitar ]
Everything went like I planned it and I really put on quite a show
In my heart I felt I could stand it till you walked with your grip through the door
Then a little bitty tear...
I have walked through the shadow of your afternoon
Chasing the sundown of our love
Making believe I'm still the one on your mind
Hoping your thoughts will all be kind
So let time be your friend so let peace rule your mind
And be kind to yourself trusting the things you're hoping to find
Mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm
Making believe I'm still the one on your mind...
All around the water tank waitin' for a train
A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain
I walked up to the brakeman and give him a line of talk
He said if you've got money I'll see that you don't walk
I haven't got a nickel not one penny can I show
Get off get off you railroad bum and he slammed that boxcar door (yodel)
[ dobro ]
He put me off in Texas a place I dearly love
Wide open spaces all around me and the moon and stars up above
Well nobody seems to want me nor to lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco going back to Dixie Land
Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain
Why don't you write write write me a letter send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County jail
Why don't you send me the best of love dear there's no one to go my bail
Never seen a place so lonely as the Tupelo County jail
Send that letter full of kisses over these prison walls
Cause baby kisses on paper are better than no kisses at all
I hear the freight train pass my window callin' me to ride the rail
Ball and chain gonna keep me in the Tupelo County jail
[ steel ]
I'm a travelin' man made a lotta stops all over the world
And in every port out Omaha I at least got lovely girl
Got a pretty senorita waitin' for me down in old Mexico
If you're ever in Alaska stop and see my cute little Eskimo
Oh my sweet Fraulein down in Berlin town makes my heart start to yearn
And my China doll down in old Hong Kong waits for my return
Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea I remember the night
When we walked in the sands of Waikiki and I held you oh so tight
[ guitar ]
Oh my sweet Fraulein...
THE GIRL FROM PEYTON PLACE
There she goes
Her proudly upturned nose..
Just one mistake she made
But yet...
They won't let her forget.
There goes
The girl from Peyton Place
I'd be glad
To love her good or bad
To kiss her tears away
But then
Could I take the place of him?
Oh I love
The girl from Peyton Place.
Small town talk
Has branded her
She can't break away
From the path that goes
From Peyton Place
But I love her anyway.
Sad girl
Please let me in your world
You still have so much love to give.
And so much life to live.
Oh I love you
Girl from Peyton Place
I need you
Song sung blue everybody knows one song sung blue every garden grows on
Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
But when you take the blues and make a song you sing 'em out again
You sing 'em out again
Song sung blue weeping like a willow song sung blue sleeping on my pillow
Funny thing but you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know it get the feeling good you simply got no choice
[ steel ]
Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
But when you take the blues and make a song you sing 'em out again
Song sung blue weeping like a willow...
If you can't love me till forever I'd never hold you and I won't cry
Leave me gently when it's over if you can't stop smile as you go by
I could love you like I found you with the sunshine in your eyes
I'd never wrap out the dreams around you if you can't stop smile as you go by
If it's forever let me feeling if it's not and still you're satified
Treat me gently when it's over if you can't stop smile as you go by
[ guitar ]
They say don't go on Wolverton Mountain if you're looking for a wife
Cause Clifton Clovers has a pretty young daughter
He's mighty handy with a gun and a knife
Her tender lips are sweeter than honey and Wolverton Mountain protects her there
The bears and the birds tell Clifton Clovers if a stranger should inter there
All of my dreams are on Wolverton Mountain I want his daughter for my wife
I'll take my chances and climb that mountain
Though Clifton Clovers he may take my life
Her tender lips..
I'm goin' go up on Wolverton Mountain it's too lonesome down here below
It's just not right to hide his daughter from the one who loves her so
Her tender lips...
I don't care about Clifton Clovers I'm gonna climb up on his mountain
In this day and age world changes half and twice as fast
Sometimes I get wondering if anything will last
People changing partners like they change the clothes they wear
Maybe I'l old fashioned but darling I still care
And I'm yours for life come and be my lifetime
Came and take the love I have for only one
Yes I'm yours for life come and share my lifetime
Share the world until our day is done
First time that I saw your face I loved you where you stood
In your eyes the kindlyness told me you were good
Then I felt the feeling that I never felt before
Darling if I try and try I could not love you more
And I'm yours for life...
Sometimes I pray that you will always be the way you always are part of me
Cause if I lost you in the winds of change then I would cease to be
Lights from the bedroom made halos of hair around her head
And later in silence she lay soft as silk on my bed
She whispered I love you then I placed a kiss on her cheek
And in moments her eyelashes covered her dark eyes in sleep
I lay there in silence as she lived in dreams of her own
Loving her so much the tears down my face warmly flowed
Her soft hair kissed my pillow and curled gold and brown on her cheek
My mind took a picture for a memory that I'd always keep
Saturday morning we laughed and we walked in the park
Having such good times that we lost today to the dark
Sunday came running her mother came promptly at three
Taking my daughter my pride and joy away from me
The week days are so lonely but on Fridays Lord my life begins
Cause I can't have her only on the weekends
Saturday morning we laughed...
Old friends say that they seen you around they say that you're wearing a veil
You're out and around with the new friends you've found
If you're lonesome and no one could tell
You can stop to tell me that you're doing fine I smile but I'd rather not know
It hurts me to know how you're spendin' your time if you miss me it sure doesn't show
You make it look so easy Lord but no time it looks like you're free
You make it look so easy but it ain't been that easy for me
[ guitar ]
I suppose you've become quite a girl about town you're welcome wherever you go
And you seem so at home in the new world you've found but to me I just can't let go
Well I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died
They said for the last two weeks that he suffered and cried
It made a big impression on me although I was a barefoot kid
They said he got religion at the end and I'm glad that he did
Clayton was the best guitar picker in our town
I thought he was a hero and I used to follow Clayton around
I often wondered why Clayton who seemed so good to me
Never took his guitar and made it down in Tennessee
Daddy said he drank a lot but I could never understand
I knew he used to picked up in Ohio with a five piece band
Clayton used to tell me son you better put that old guitar away
There ain't no money in it it'll lead you to an early gray
I guess if I'd admit it Clayton taught me how to drink booze
I can see him half stoned pickin' up the Lovesick Blues
When Clayton died I made him a promise I was gonna carry on somehow
I'd give a hundred dollars if he could only see me now
I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died
Nobody ever knew it but I went out in the woods and I cried
Well I know there's a lotta big preachers that know a lot more than I do
But it could be that the good Lord likes a little picking too
It matters not to you babe it matters not to me
Guess it's time the two of us set each other free
Don't it make you wonder babe if anything's for sure
I'd have said the love we have would always endure
And after all the time I've spent with you it's hard to break the habbit you'd become
So if I seem to be a little bit confused I'm just looking for a way to go on
[ steel ]
I left it up to you babe you left it up to me
Now there's nothing left to do but set each other free
And after all the time...
It matters not to you babe it matters not to me
THE DAY THE SAW MILL CLOSED DOWN
(Jerry Foster - Bill Rice)
« © '67 Universal PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Her house on the corner of Cedar and Elm
Still stands in our town
But it's been empty since she moved away
The day that the saw mill closed down
We'd sit on her porch almost every night
I remember how happy we were
We'd grow up and marry I'd work at the mill
To make a living for her
Her father worked at the mill
Like most of the others in town
I lost my girl when he lost his job
The day that the saw mill closed down
She moved from the corner of Cedar and Elm
And I never saw her again
But I can still hear her mother's soft voice
Saying honey it's time to come in
No longer do mill hands live here
The giant saws don't make a sound
No longer does my love live here
Not since the saw mill closed down
There are so many flirty guys with flirty flirty ways
I am so afraid that they would steal you some day
Don't let 'em darling cause you belong to me
No don't ever let them make you think your heart is fancy free
Don't let 'em darling that heart belongs to me
The'll tell you that I trifle and that you should do the same
They'll tell you that they need your love so why not make the change
Don't do it darling that love belongs to me
Oh please don't let them blind you I still love you can't you see
Don't let 'em darling that heart belongs to me
[ steel ]
They'll offer you a mansion ask in to be their queen
So they can give you riches make your life a happy dream
Don't let 'em darling that dream belongs to me
Oh sure they'll try to buy your love with riches such as these
Don't let 'em darling that heart belongs to me
If I've had my way I'd leave here today I'd leave in a hurry
I'd find me a place where I could stay and not have to worry
I'd find me a spot on some mountain top with no one around me
With valleys and streams and birds in the trees and lakes that surround me
A place I could use a place I could lose these Tennessee blues
[ piano-dobro ]
A place to forget all my regrets and keep just a right time
A place I could sleep with nothing but peace and feel free an all time
A place I could use a place I could lose these Tennessee blues
Tommy and Laura were lovers he wanted to give here everything
Flowers presents and most of all a wedding ring
He saw a sign for a stockcar race a thousand dollar prize it read
He couldn't get Laura on the phone so to her mother Tommy said
Tell Laura I love her tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura I may be late I've something to do that cannot wait
He drove his car to the racing ground he was the youngest driver there
The crowd roared as they started to race
Around the truck they drove at a deadly pace
No one knows what happened that day how his car overturned in flames
But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck
With his dying breath they heard him say
Tell Laura I love her tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry my love for her will never die
Now in the chapel Laura prays for her Tommy who passed away
It was just for Laura that he lived and died alone in the chapel she can hear him cry
Tell Laura I love her...
Teen angel teen angel teen angel uh-huh
That fateful night the car was stalled upon the railroad track
I pulled you out and we were safe but you went running back
Teen Angel can you hear me teen angel can you see me
Are you somewhere up above and am I still your own true love
What was it you were looking for that took your life that night
They said they found my high school ring clutched in your fingers tight
Teen angel can you hear me...
Just sweet sixteen and now you're gone they've taken you away
I'll never kiss your lips again they buried you today
Teen angel can you hear me...
Almost heaven West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains Shenandoah River
Life is old there older than the trees younger than the mountains blowin' like a breeze
Country roads take me home to the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads
All my mem'ries gather round her miner's lady stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty painted on the sky misty taste of moonshine teardrops in my eyes
Country roads take me home...
I hear her voice in the mornin' as she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Drivin' down the road I get a feelin' that I should have been
Home yesterday yesterday
Country roads take me home...
The only thing I really own is what you see me wearing on my back
The only friends I've ever known are the kind you meet along a railroad track
The kind you bum tabacco from and see the world through a boxcar door
A friend who talks and makes you laugh has nothing much but gives you half
And maybe you don't see him anymore
Special I hear your lonesome whistle whine
Special keep moving me on down the line
[ steel ]
My mackinaw's full of holes and ain't too good at keeping out the cold
My shoes are worn as paper thin my feet can feel the cibders through the soles
Sometimes I see a pretty girl wonder what I've missed along the way
Once someone special wore my ring loved me more than anything
I gave her up and caught a train one day
Special I had a special girl on time Special keep moving me on down the line
There's a ramshackle shack in old Caroline it's calling me back to the girl of mine
Those two brown eyes I'm longing to see oh the girl of my dreams she'll always be
[ fiddle - steel ]
Those two brown eyes that sparkle with love came down to me from heaven above
If I had the wings of a beautiful dove I'd fly to the arms of the one that I love
I just stepped in a puddle and I sank up to my neck
I can't see the traffic light I'll get run over yet
It cost me thirteen tokens to find my way back home
By then you'd shut the water off and taken out my phone
Since you've given me those sleep walkin' blues
You've given me those sleep walkin' blues blues blues
I don't know if I'll wake up from this dream of you
You've given me those sleep walkin' blues
I shoot out my doormat in the middle of my bed
My life is undernourished cause my heart is underfed
My days are rambling nightmares my nights are even worse
Cause I can't find a way to get myself back down to earth
Since you've given me...
[ dobro ]
I put on Waylon Jennings but I could not hear a sound
Yet all my neighbors yellin' turn that country music down
I picked up my guitar to try to ease my mind
But the notes stopped to my fingers and the words they would not rhyme
Since you've given me...
I don't know if I'll wake up from this dream of you
(She thinks I still care)
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I rang her number by mistake today she thinks I still care
Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of her lingers everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be she thinks I still care
Well 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 where would she get such an idea
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just bacause I saw her then went all to pieces she thinks I still care
(Roses are red my love)
A long long time ago on graduation day
You handed me your book I signed this way
Roses are red my love violets are blue
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you
We dated through high school and when the big day came
I wrote into your book next to my name
Roses are red my love...
Then I went far away and you found someone new
I read your letter dear and I wrote back to you
Roses are red my love violets are blue
Sugar is sweet my love good luck may God bless you
Is that your little girl she looks a lot like you
Some day some boy will write in her book too
Alone until my eighteenth year, we met four springs ago
She was shy and had a fear, of things she did not know
But we got it on together in such a super way
We held each other close at night, and traded dreams each day
She said Rocky I've never been in love before, don't know if I can do it
But if you let me lean on you take my hand I might get through it, through it
I said baby, oh sweet baby it's love that sets us free
And God knows if the world should end your love is safe with me
We found an old grey house, and you would not believe the way
We worked at night to fix it up, took classes in the day
Painting walls and sipping wine, sleeping on the floor
With so much love with just too, soon we found there'd be one more
And she said Rocky I've never had a baby before, don't know if I can do it
But if you let me lean on you, take my hand I might get through it, through it
I said baby, oh sweet baby it's love that sets us free,
and God knows if the word should end your love is save with me.
We had lots of problems then, but we had lots of fun
Like the birthday party, when our baby girl turned one
I was proud and satisfied, life had so much to give
Till the day they told me that she didn't have long to live
She said Rocky I never had to die before don't know if I can do it
Now it's back to two again my little girl and I
Who looks so much like her sweet mother, sometimes that makes me cry
I sleep alone at nights again, I walk alone each day
And sometimes when I'm about to give in, I hear her sweet voice say to me
Rocky you know you've been alone before, you know you can do it
But if you'd like to lean on me, take my hand I'll help you through it, through it.
I said baby, oh sweet baby it's love that sets us free
And God knows if the world should end, your love is safe with me
Down by the river that flows by the coal yard's stand
Wooden houses with shutters torn down
There lives a girl everybody calls Patches
Patches my darling of old Shantytown
We planned to marry when June brought the summer
I couldn?t wait to make Patches my bride
Now I don?t see how that ever can happen
My folks say no and my heart breaks inside
Patches oh what can I do?
I swear, I?ll always love you
But a girl from that place would just bring me disgrace
So my folks won?t let me love you
Each night I cry as I think of that Shanty and pretty patches
There watching the door
She doesn?t know that I can?t come to see her
Patches must think that I love her no more
I hear a neighbor telling my father
He says, a girl name of Patches was found floating face down
In that dirty old river that flows by the coal yards
In old Shantytown
Patches oh what can I do?
I swear, I?ll always love you
It may not be right but I?ll join you tonight
Well I woke up this morning when the cold Chicago wind
Blew my newspaper blanket off my back
Through my dirty broken window the grey sun filtered in
As I dreamed about the Southbound railroad track
I could almost hear the crickets in a sleepy cottonfield
As daddy drove our vagon to Virgin
But today I'd give a fortune for a twenty five cent meal
And I wish I was a country boy again
So let me ride on the Southbound
Back to where I came from I don't care or where I am
Let me ride on the Southbound and put me off somewhere near Birmingham
[ guitar ]
What happened to my vision of a mansion on a hill
And the fame and fortune I came here to win
I've got nothing but the roaches running cross my window sill
And I wish I was a country boy again
Didn't feel so cold and tired stretched out before the fire
Rolling smokes and drinking up her wine
And I remember candle light and singin' till we couldn't sing no more
Then falling warm asleep on Susan's floor
Now that my song is sweeter Lord I'd like to greet her
And thank her for the flavors that she gave
A stranger I came my head bowed in the rain to her door
I sat and sang my songs on Susan's floor
In the morning I'd go on buying kingdoms with my songs
Knowing I'd be back in just a while healing in the sunshine of her smile
Well lots of times and songs have passed I catch myself just looking back
Reliving all the wonder of those nights
That's where I'd be today if I had only stay one night more
And sang another song on Susan's floor
Like crippled ships that made it through storm and finally reached a quiet shore
I've got a never ending love for you from now on that's all I wanna do
From the first time we met I knew I'd have a never ending love for you
I've got a never ending love...
After all this time of being alone
We can love one another feel for each other from now on
Feels so good I can hardly stand it
Never ending love for you from now on that's all I wanna do
From the first time we met I knew I'd sing my never ending song of love for you
[ steel ]
After all this time...
Fly ye away from my window little bluebird fly ye as far as you can away from here
And let not your song fall upon my ear
Go spread your blue wings and I'll shed my blue tears
For the one that I have loved she has left me and gone
And I'm in no mood for to hear your sad song hum hum
Bring not your light into my dark blue yellow sunshine
Waste not your warmth on the coldness in here
Oh trouble me not go ye elsewhere
Go light your blue sky amd I'll shed my blue tears away
For the only one that I have ever loved has gone
And I'm in no mood for the sunshine today hum hum
(Dark old cave Miller's Cave)
Way down in the state of Georgia through the swamps and everglades
There's a hole in Tiger Mountain God help the man who gets lost in Miller's Cave
I had a girl in way cross Georgia but she had unfaithful ways
Made me feel I was unwanted like the birds and the bears in Miller's Cave
I couldn't stand the way she did me couldn't take her lowdown ways
Before I'll stay with the cheatin' woman I'll go live with the bears in Miller's Cave
(Dark old cave)
I caught her out one Sunday morning with the man they call Big Dave
Meanest man in way cross Georgia I'd rather fight a mountain lion in Miller's Cave
I said you'll pay both you and Davy I'm gonna see you in your graves
They laughed at me and then I shot 'em
I took their cheatin' skin and bones in Miller's Cave
(Dark old cave)
That woman made me feel unwanted but I showed her I was brave
Most wanted man in the state of Georgia
The first time that she said let's start our family
I said hon I've got the whole wide world to see
So come along and be this drifter's lady the next best thing to love is bein' free
She said don't you feel the need to have some kids and settle down
I said not while there's some places left to go yeah
I'd like to love you in Alaska underneath the midnight sun
She said makin' love don't always make love grow didn't you know
Acapulco and the Mexicaly sunshine Hawaii on a rooftop in the rain
Out of Rio De Janeiro on a tramp liner just outside of Paris on a train
And she said don't you feel the need to have some kids and settle down
I said not while there's some places left to go
I'd like to love you in the backseat of a taxi leavin' town
She said makin' love don't always make love grow didn't you know
As we walked one day along the beach of Monterey
A little boy came up and took her by the hand
And said mom is it okay if I go swimmin'
But when he saw his mistake he blushed and ran
I laughed and reached for her but she just stepped away
Through the teardrops in her eyes she tried to smile
Suddenly I knew she'd wait for me no longer and just as suddenly I changed my style
I said don't you feel the need to have some kids and settle down
Someday everybody needs a home
I guess I'm finally learnin' love is more than just a runnin' round
But makin' love is hard to do alone
I said don't you feel the need to have some kids and settle down
Babe I'm gonna take it on my own
See I'm finally learnin' love is more than just a runnin' round
Hey, hey, hey, hey-ay, hey, hey, hey, hey-ay
Nights didn't seem so long no more
Ain't one man like it was before
Just when I thought I was really okay
I saw Linda yesterday
My heart went up, down
Like a merry-go-round and round
Like a forest fire, down, down
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Looked like I'd found peace of mind
Looked like I was gonna make it this time
Just when I thought I was really okay
I saw Linda yesterday
Oh, she smiled that same old smile
My heart was runnin' wild
My love for her is reelin'
Sit around and watch me cry
People ask, "What's wrong?, I say
"I saw Linda yesterday"
My heart went up, down
Like a merry-go-round and round
Like a forest fire, down, down
Oh, oh, oh, dum-didly, dum-didly, dum-dum-dum
Hey, hey, dum de dodie-dodie
Hip, hip, dum de dodie-dodie
Hip, hip, dum de dodie-dodie-do
Those hard feelings nowhere she'd need to say
Things like this they happened every day
We're two grown people and neither one's to blame
Sometimes things just work out this way
Well I never will get over you who could there ever will be with you
You're part of me and whatever time may do I never will get over you
[ steel ]
Please don't be sorry we shared a lot of life but nothing last forever though they say
Don't you worry really I'll be all right sometimes things just turn out this way
But I never will get over you...
The longer I know her the more I can tell my darling's not happy with me
The longer I know that I know her too well the less love in her eyes I see
Cause she don't hold and kiss me like she did one time
I think my sweet baby's got leavin' on her mind
The stronger I hold her the farther apart my darling is growin' from me
The danger of my darling breaking my heart it's fast movin' in on me
Cause she don't hold and kiss me...
The deeper I love her the farther away my darling slips out of my hands
The longer the future the longer I'll stay out of my darling's plans
Cause she don't hold and kiss me...
GOOD LOVIN'
WRITERS AHMET ERTEGUN, LEROY KIRKLAND, JESSE STONE, DANNY TAYLOR
I was feelin' so bad
I asked my family doctor just what I had
I said "Doctor, (Doctor), Mr. M.D., (Doctor)
Now can you tell me what's ailin' me (Doctor)"
He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yes indeed
All I, I really need
Good lovin' (Now gimme that good, good lovin')
Good lovin' (All I need is lovin')
Good lovin' (Good, good lovin', baby)
Good lovin'
Honey, please squeeze me tight (squeeze me tight)
Don't you want your baby to be all right (be all right)
I said baby (baby) now it's for sure (it's for sure)
I got the fever, yeah, and you got the cure (got the cure)
Everybody: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Give me one good reason not to go tell me why I shouldn't leave today
Give me one good reason not to walk away hmm hmm
I'm only made of flash and blood and I've had about all I can take
You keep playing with my love as if my heart could never break
You stayed out late and never call sometimes I wonder if you cared at all
Give me one good reason not to go tell me why I shouldn't leave today
Give me one good reason not to walk away and I'll stay and I'll stay
[ dobro ]
We used to sing in harmony the sweetest sound I've ever heard
But now our song is out of key and you forgotten all the words
You run around fancy free don't you know how bad you've hurtin' me
Everybody's reaching out for someone everybody's knocking at some door
And long before I ever found you you're the one that I was reaching for
Just like the trees along the river bend lift up the branches to the sun above
We spent our lifetimes reaching for a friend cause everybody reach someone to love
And everybody's reaching out...
I wanted you since the day my life began
I've heard your footsteps running just beyond my mind
Ever since that moment I've been reaching for your hand
Hoping you'd be reaching out for mine
Everybody's reaching out...
On the weekend pass I wouldn't have had time
To get home and marry that baby of mine
So I want to be explain and he authorised me to send for my ebony eyes
My ebony eyes was coming to me from out of the skies on Flight 1203
In a hour or two would I whisper I do to my beautiful ebony eyes
The plane was way overdue so I went inside that airlines desk
And said sir I wonder why 1203 is so late he said oh they probably took off late
Or they may have run into some turbinate weather and had altered the course
So I went back outside and I waited at the gate
And I watched the beacon light from the control tower
As it flipped through the dark of ebony skies as if it were searching for
(The ebony eyes)
And then come the announcement over the loudspeaker
With those having relatives of friends on Flight No 1203
Please report to the chapel across the street at once
Then I felt a burning break deep inside and I knew the heavenly ebony skies
Had taken my life's most wonderful price my beautiful ebony eyes
If I ever get to heaven I'll bet the first angel I'll recognize
Saw your picture in the paper and I see you've married good
And I know that he can give you all the things I never could
But I know that he won't give you what you need most of all
Well the door is always open and the light's on in the hall
Yes the door is always open and the light's on in the hall
And you know that I'll be waiting if you ever come to call
[ steel ]
When night falls on that mansion and you're lying in his bed
And he begs you for attention will you think of me instead
And when he reaches up to touch you is your face turned toward the wall
Well the door is always open and the light's on in the hall
Yes the door is always open...
