Love that runs away from me dreams that just won't let me be
Blues that keep on botherin' me chains that just won't set me free
Too far away from you and all your charms just out of reach of my two empty arms
Each night in dreams I see your face memories time can't erase
I awake and find you gone I'm so blue and all alone
So far away from lips so sweet and warm just out of reach of my two empty arms
That lonesome feeling all the time I know you'll never be mine
Dreams that hurt me in my sleep I mean vows that we just couldn't keep
Why must I love a heartless one?
Who'll never know the harm she's done
Though love is blind, I should have known
Just call me lonesome from now on
I climb the stairs up to my room
But, no one meets me in the gloom
And the silence tells me, she is gone
Just call me lonesome from now on
These walls will hide me, when I cry
And pray that heaven lets me die
What good is life, when hope is gone?
Just call me lonesome from now on
I pray my memories at last
Will fade into the distant past
And if I must live and love alone
Just call me lonesome from now on
I could cry cause I fell in love with you I could cry cause you never could be true
I could cry my very heart out for someone just like you
I could cry but what good would it do
I'll go on caring I'll go on sharing every little dream I have with you
I'll go on giving I'll go on living every single day of my life for you
I could cry cause I'm still in love with you how I'll cry dear I wish you only knew
I could cry my very heart out just hoping you'll be true
Yes I'll cry for what else is there to do
[ steel - fiddle ]
My love is gone my pride is gone, I care no more
My heart is tired from loving you, I care no more
I don't regret when first we met, when love was there
Now love is gone, life lingers on I just don't care
Love is a thing that is crazy for all, no matter who
I had my love but I lost it all, when I lost you
It never should have happened and it won't no more
My love is gone, my pride is gone, I care no more
(Love is a thing that is crazy for all no matter who)
I had my love but I lost it all, when I lost you
It never should have happened and it won't no more
I can't stop loving you
I've made up my mind
To live in memories
Of old lonesome time
I can't stop wanting you
It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life
In dreams of yesterday
Those happy hours
That we once knew
Though long ago
Still make me blue
They say that time
Heals a broken heart
But time has stood still
Since we've been apart
I can't stop loving you
Done made up my mind
To live in memories
Of old lonesome time
Just can't stop wanting you
It's useless to say
I'll just live my life
This is my final affair it's over and now I don't care
I've been in love and I found it hurts when your heart's kicked around
This is my final romance I know it's not worth a chance
I'm bluer than I was before I won't fall in love anymore
It's too much to ask of someone to give their love their heart their all
To someone who's only pretending and calls you a fool when you fall
This is my final romance I know it's not worth a chance
My heart's beyond all repair and this is my final affair
(It's too much to ask of someone to give their love their heart their all)
I get the blues when it rains the blues I can't lose when it rains
Each little drop that falls on my window pane
Always reminds me of tears I've shed in vain
I sit and wait for the sun to shine down on me once again
It rained when I found you rained when I lost you
That's why I get the blues when it rains
[ guitar ]
Carolina moon keep shining, shining on the one who waits for me
Carolina moon I'm pining, pining for the place, I long to be
How I'm hoping tonight you'll go, go to the right window
Scatter your light say I'm alright please do
Tell her that I'm blue and lonely dreamy Carolina moon
(Cello)
Shining on the one who waits for me
(Cello)
I'm pining for the place, I long to be
Are you thinking that I wasn't meant for you
Could it be you believe that I've been untrue
Listen sweetheart this just cannot be
For you're the only good thing that's happened to me
We've had our ups and downs like all lovers do
But you know in your heart that I worship you
So don't ever think of setting me free
For you're the only good thing that's happened to me
[ guitar ]
You're free to go, darling, I'll break the ties that bind
Somehow the dreams we planned have gone astray
You're free to go darling so ease your worried mind
I'll never stand in your way
There's no ring or shining gold so strong that it can hold
A heart when it longs to be free
The lips are cold, darling, that once said yes to me
The tender glow is gone I know
You're free to go
There's no ring or shining gold so strong that it can hold
A heart when it longs to be free
The lips are cold, darling, that once said yes to me
The tender glow is gone I know
You can go where you wanna go
Even sail the ocean blue
Just need me as much as I need you
You can do what you wanna do
And I'll bless each little thing you do
Just need me that's all I ask of you
It would please me to know that you need me
When the road is dark where you walk
Please let me know that you need me
To listen while you talk
Go where you wanna go
Even sail the ocean blue
Just need me that's all I need to know
It would please me to know that you need me
When the road is dark where you walk
Please let me know that you need me
Marie the dawn is breaking Marie you'll soon be waking
To find your heart is aching and tears will fall as you recall
The night in all its splendor a kiss kiss kiss so very tender
The words won't you surrender to me hey Marie
[ guitar ]
You'll never know just how much I love you
You'll never know just how much I care
And if I tried I still couldn't hide my love for you
You ought to know for haven't I told you so
A million or more times you went away
And my heart went with you
I speak your name in my every breath
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how
I don't see me in your eyes anymore
Oh, why can't I make them shine as before
I don't see you or your heart in a kiss
When you should sigh you're mine you resist
There was a time love was fine love was ecstasy
But now I doubt what the outcome will be
I pray you'll say I'm the one you adore
And I'll see me in your eyes as before
There was a time love was fine love was ecstasy
But now I doubt what the outcome will be
I pray you'll say I'm the one you adore
Pardon me if I'm sentimental when we say goodbye
Don't be angry with me should I cry
When you're gone yet I'll dream a little dream as years go by
Now and then there's a fool such as I
Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you
You taught me how to love and now you say that we're through
I'm a fool but I'll love you dear until the day I die
Now and then there's a fool such as I
When you are gone
There's no fun with the crowd
I find myself crying
Even crying out loud
I could find fun
But I'd still be alone
'Cause my world simply stands still
When you are gone
When you are gone
My heart knows it well
And it just won't believe
These stories I tell
Just can't get used to
This being alone
And there's nothing to live for
When you are gone
When you are gone
My heart knows it well
And it just won't believe
All these stories I tell
Just can't get used to
This being alone
And there's nothing to live for
Your world was so different from mine don't you see
We just couldn't be close though we tried
We both reached for heavens but ours weren't the same
That's what happens when two world's collide
Your world was made up of things sweet and good
My world could never fit in, wish it could
Two hearts lie in shambles and though how they cried
That's what happenes when two world's collide
Your world was made up of things sweet and good
My world could never fit in, wish it could
Two heart's lie in shambles and though how they cried
You'll never be mine again guess I've known it since don't know when
I've just been pretending I know I can't win
Let me hold you just one more time and pretend that your world is mine
We'll whisper goodbye and then you'll never be mine again
Someone else will know the thrill of holding you
And sharing all those little things we used to do
So give me your sweetest smile and let me just dream a while
Then my world will come to an end you'll never be mine again
I know that I'm a fool
To keep on loving you so hopelessly
Someone else is in your heart
So what's in it for me?
Why do I dream of you
When I'm just dreaming of what used to be
There's no future in the past
So what's in it for me?
But I can't help it
I can't seem to break the ties that bind
These ties of love are wound too tight
Around this heart of mine
I know that it's a sin
To wish my life could end and cease to be
But what's life without your love
What's in it for me?
But what's life without your love
What were you doing when I saw you last night
Were you just playing hands or was he holding you tight
Did he kiss your sweet lips look in your eyes of blue
Did he whisper I love you just like I used to do
Did he ask you questions bout yesterday's flame
What was your answer did you mention my name
Did he ask you to promise that you'd always be true
Did he mention a diamond darlin' I wish I knew
[ steel - fiddle ]
Welcome to my world
Won't you come on in
Miracles I guess
Still happen now and then
Step into my heart
Leave your cares behind
Welcome to my world
Built with you in mind
Knock and the door will open
Seek and you will find
Ask and you'll be given
The key to this world of mine
I'll be waiting here
With my arms unfurled
Waiting just for you
Welcome to my world
Waiting just for you
There's that smile again
The one I always see
Each time you foul and then
Step out on me
It's that same old smile
That caused my heart to ache
Made it cry a while
Then finally break
I know, I shouldn't care
About the things you do
But when you're out somewhere
I feel so blue
I only hope and pray
That you'll come back and then
I'll never have to say
There's that smile again
I know I shouldn't care
About the things you do
But when you're out somewhere
I feel so blue
I only hope and pray
That you'll come back and then
I'll never have to say
When the evening shadows fall
And you're wondering who to call
For a little company
There's always me
Or if your great romance should end
And you're lonesome for a friend
Darling, you need never be
There's always me
I don't seem to mind somehow
Playing second fiddle now
Someday you'll want me, dear
And when that day is here
Within my arms you'll come to know
Other loves may come and go
But my love for you will be eternally
Look around and you will see
I promise you he'll never know
That once we loved each other so
The past we knew I'll not reveal
My lips are sealed
My heart may cry with every beat
Without your love I'm not complete
It doesn't matter how I feel
My lips are sealed
Let there be laughter
Not one single tear
And ever after
Let your fears disappear
If you love him as I love you
Forget the past I led you through
Just don't look back it's all concealed
My lips are sealed
Let there be laughter
Not one single tear
And ever after
Let your fears disappear
If you love him as I love you
Forget the past I led you through
Just don't look back it's all concealed
If you're sittin' with your baby in the moonlight ask her for a kiss and she says no
Keep tryin' things may happen you may some night catch her nappin'
So never take no for an answer
Never take no that won't make the lovelight glow
Take your sweetheart in your arms and then romance her
Go ahead and take a chance this may be your big romance
So never take no for an answer
If you wanna pitch some woo with your baby
Some night when you take her to a show
If you wanna snuggle closer but all she says is no sir never take no for an answer
You kept me awake last night thought about you till broad daylight
If you ask me it just ain't right this keeping me awake at night
How you expect a poor guy to last with nothing but a lonesome past
Though you're gone you're never out of sight you kept me awake last night
I was fooling myself by going to bed cause I saw your face in the book that I read
I hug my pillow and whispered sleep tight but you kept me awake last night
[ piano ]
When twilight came I said goodbye to the sun
Then thought about all those sweet things you've done
See the pyramids along the Nile watch the sunrise on a tropic isle
Just remember darling all the while you belong to me
See the market place in old Algirs send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears you belong to me
I'll be so alone without you maybe you'll be lonesome too and blue
Fly the ocean in a silver plane see the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember till you're home again you belong to me
(I'll be so alone without you maybe you'll be lonesome too and blue)
Nita Juanita ask Thy soul if we should part Nita Juanita lean Thou on my heart
Soft o'er the fountain ling'ring falls the southern moon
Far o'er the mountain breaks the day too soon
In Thy dark eyes' splendor where the warm light loves to dwell
Weary looks yet tender speak Thy fond farewell
(Nita Juanita let me linger by your side) Nita Juanita be my own fair bride
Railroad, steamboat, river and canal
Yonder comes a sucker and he's got my girl
And she's gone gone gone and she's gone gone gone
And I'll bid her my last farewell
I fell in love with a pretty little thing
I thought that wedding bells would ring
She was as sweet as sweet could be
Till I found out what she did to me
Railroad, steamboat, river and canal
Yonder comes a sucker and he's got my girl
And she's gone gone gone and she's gone gone gone
And I'll bid her my last farewell
I asked her mother to let her go
She whispered mother please tell him no
Though he may think that I am true
There's plenty more who think so too
Railroad, steamboat, river and canal
Yonder comes a sucker and he's got my girl
And she's gone gone gone and she's gone gone gone
And I'll bid her my last farewell
Now I won't cry my life away
Some other sucker will have to pay
And when he finds that she is gone
I guess I'll hear him sing this song
Railroad, steamboat, river and canal
Yonder comes a sucker and he's got my girl
And she's gone gone gone and she's gone gone gone
In a room so lonely and cheerless
Sits a woman, all alone
By her, a cradle stands empty
And o'er it she sobs and she moans:
"My husband, he no longer loves me
His love and our dear baby died
I'll leave him at home forever
And out in this old world abide"
She packed baby's things in a bundle
While the tears rolled down her cheeks
"I never, no never, would leave him
If ever a kind word he'd speak."
Just then the door softly was opened
A man took the bundle away
He laid the things out on the table
And softly to her he did say:
"One little stocking for you, dear
One little blue shoe is for me
The baby's wrap and its smallest cap
We'll keep in memory
One lock of hair is for you, dear
See how the golden curls shine
We'll keep a smile while she sleeps, for
Yours till the stars lose their glory yours till the birds fall to sing
Yours to the end of life's story this pledge to you dear I bring
Yours in the gray of December here or on a far distant shore
I've never loved anyone the way I love you
How could I when I was born to be just yours
[ guitar ]
Wishful thinking daydreams fly
Happy visions fill the night
Untold memories fade to blue
While my heart aches just for you
While my heart aches just for you
Oh, I would walk a thousand miles
I'd swim the seven seas
I'd come to stars in the Milky Way
Or leaves upon the trees
To see the twinkle in your eye
The devil in your smile
Hold your hand touch your lips
For just a little while
Wishful thinking daydreams fly
Happy visions fill the night
Untold memories fade to blue
While my heart aches just for you
While my heart aches just for you
Wishful thinking daydreams fly
Happy visions fill the night
Untold memories fade to blue
While my heart aches just for you
I try to sleep to kill the pain
When I wake it's still the same
'Cause I'm living in
This world you left behind
Just like a broken piece of glass
You have swept me aside to pass
Leaving shattered dreams
With a lonely heart and mind
Well here I go again
(Here I go again)
It's just like yesterday
(Just like yesterday)
The pain is deep within
My heart to stay
I'm just a fool to sit and cry
Wasting years before I die
In this lonely world
This world you left behind
Well here I go again
(Here I go again)
It's just like yesterday
(Just like yesterday)
The pain is deep within
My heart to stay
I'm just a fool to sit and cry
Wasting years before I die
In this lonely world
I'm on my way to your wedding how I hate to go there
But I just couldn't stay couldn't stay away for you see I still care
I couldn't stand not knowing what this man you'll marry's like
What a sad trip to your wedding but sadder coming back
When you take his hand and make your plans the plans we made are through
And though it hurts and hurts how it hurts my best to both of you
[ guitar ]
I received your invitation and I held it in my hand
But to tear this letter open was more than I could stand
Would it matter if I told you that I cried for my first time today
A rose should be where the sun shines through
Not where the wine is red and the smoke is blue
A rose should be blooming in the light not in a randezvous blooming in the night
And you are a rose may be a wild rose but I'll be proud to take you home for all to see
To stand with me where the candles glow
With orange blossoms all around the wild wild rose
[ strings ]
Evening shadows make me blue when each weary day is through
How I long to be with you my happiness
Everyday I reminisce dreaming of your tender kiss
Always thinking how I miss my happiness
A million years it seems have gone by since we shared our dreams
But I'll hold you again there'll be no blue memories then
Where the skies are grey or blue anyplace on earth will do
Just as long as I'm with you my happiness
Today I burned your old love letters.
Burned them gently one by one
Before I'd light the flame I'd read it
To try and find the wrong I've done
The first you wrote me was the sweetest
The last one broke my heart in two
Our love is there among the embers
Of the ashes of your letters tied in blue
Today I burned your old love letters
I watched our love go up in smoke
I lived again those precious mem'ries
I heard each tender word you spoke
The first you wrote me was the sweetest
The last one said that we were through
Our love is there among the embers
Till the star in the sky seems to shine till the sand in
the desert grows cold
Till the last petals fall from the roses and the silver
in your hair turns back to gold
Till the sun and the moon hide in darkness and we wait
for the great light to shine
My darling that's how long I will love you till the end
of the world you'll be mine
[ guitar ]
Young hearts can be foolish and make a mistake
If they're not forgiven young hearts can break
So kiss me my darling hold me tight young lips make everything right
Young hearts can be cruel young hearts can be blind
I'm sorry that mine dear was one of that kind
If you can forgive me kiss me and then our young hearts will be happy again
[ piano ]
Irving Berlin 1942
(May all your Chrisymases)
(Be merry and bright)
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
(I'm dreaming of a white Christmas)
(Just like the ones I used to know)
(Where the treetops glisten)
(And children listen)
(To hear sleigh bells in the snow)
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
Soft as the voice of an angel, breathing a lesson unheard
Hope with a gentle persuasion, whispers her comforting word
Wait till the darkness is over, wait till the tempest is done
Hope for the sunshine tomorrow, after the darkness is gone
Whispering hope oh how welcome Thy voice
making my heart in its sorrow rejoice
If in the dusk of the twilight, dim be the region afar
Will not the deepening darkness, brighten the glimmering star
Then when the night is upon us, why should the heart sink away
When the dark midnight is over, watch for the breaking of day
Whispering hope oh how welcome Thy voice
I have heard of a land on the faraway strand this a beautiful home of the soul
Built by Jesus on high there we never shall die
This the land where we'll never grow old
Never grow old never grow old in the land where we'll never grow old
Never grow old never grow old in the land where we'll never grow old
[ piano ]
When our work here is done and the life's crown is won
And our troubles and trials are o'er
All our sorrow will end and our voices will blend
With the loved ones who've gone on before
Where does a broken heart go, does it just fade away?
Is it lost forever, will it live again someday?
How can a broken heart live on with more than its share?
When it knows the game is lost and it's hopeless to care
When a heart has taken 'bout all it can stand
Is it then protected with God's loving hand?
Where does a broken heart go when it dies of pain?
Is there a heaven for broken hearts, will it live again?
Is it then protected with God's loving hand?
Where does a broken heart go when it dies of pain?
If anyone could find the joy
That true love brings a girl and boy
We could we could you and I
If anyone could ever say
That their true love was here to stay
We could we could you and I
When you're in my arms
I know you're happy to be there
And just as long as I'm with you
I'm happy anywhere
If anyone could pray each night
And thank the Lord that all is right
We could we could you and I
If all of the stars were a million guitars and the moon was the girl that I loved
If they played for me and to each melody we could dance in the heavens above
Waltzing with my darling in a paradise with my girl
The moment I found you my heart left the ground to go waltzing on top of the world
[ strings ]
We'd go right on dancing and find sweet romancing then when we'd linger to love
My darlimng how sweet you'd look swinging your feet
From a silver lined cloud high above
All around the water tank
Waitin' for a train
A thousand miles away from home
Sleepin' in the rain
I walked up to a brakeman
To 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 a penny can I show
Get off, get off, you railroad bum
He slammed the boxcar door
Well, he put me off in Texas
A state I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me
The moon and stars up above
Nobody seems to want me
Or lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco
Goin' back to Dixie Land
My pocketbook is empty
My heart is full of pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home
Tweedle o'twill puffin' on corn silks tweedle o'twill widdlin' wood
Sittin' there wishin' he could go fishin' over the hill tweedle o'twill
Tweedle o'twill don't he look drowsy tweedle o'twill noddin' his head
Bet he feels lazy pickin' up daisy gettin' a thrill tweedle o'twill
[ guitar ]
Tweedle o'twill bobbin' and weavin' tweedle o'twill wadin' in corn
Takin' it easy out where it's breezy better be still tweedle o'twill
Tweedle o'twill swattin' a horsefly tweedle o'twill ticklin' his nose
Trying to forget the thrill of holding you
Will I ever stop thinking of hapiness we knew?
Who are you thinking of in your dreams at night?
Who are you longing for when you hug your pillow tight?
But I'll forget, I'll forget
I know I will
Maybe I will find a heart
That's true and a love that's real
Trying to forget the times you broke my heart
Remembering how happy you made me at the start
Please, won't you listen I want you to know?
(It's true)
It's true I know it's true
I'm losing you and it's breaking my heart
It's true
(Yes it's true)
I know we're through
(I know we're through)
There's someone new, it just tears me apart
I don't know what I'll do without you
I've loved you for so long
I've built my whole world around you
And I just can't believe that you're gone
But it's true I know it's true
My dreams are through
And they'll never come true
I've built my whole world around you
And I just can't believe that you're gone
But it's true
(Yes it's true)
I know it's true
(I know it's true)
My dreams are through and they'll never come true
One night in Old Monterey by the silvery Rio Grande
I fell in love as the Spanish violins played my lovely senorita's serenade
The violins were singing a love song and my heart sang the song that they played
We held each other near till both our hearts could hear my lovely senorita's serenade
Spanish violins sing your love song again
Our hearts are light and gay every time you play my lovely senorita's serenade
[ fiddle ]
The violins seemed to say hold her closer and make her lips your own
I held her in my arms and we shared each other's charms
And the Spanish violins played on
The violins were singing...
There's a new moon over my shoulder
And an old love still in my heart
I remember now that I'm older
What you told me the day we had to part
You promised with the new moon
You'd be coming back to me
Many moons have passed
Still I'm waiting patiently
There's a new moon over my shoulder
And an old love still in my heart
There's a new moon over my shoulder
And an old love still in my heart
Now I'm wishing I had been bolder
Then perhaps we wouldn't be so far apart
You promised you would write me
But so could not a line
Still I wait and make believe
That some day you'll be mine
There's a new moon over my shoulder
Sometimes they ask me if I'm really happy now
I say, "Sure, I never loved her anyhow"
But inside I long for you and the way it used to be
I look around and there's a heartache followin' me
I always say that I'm really glad you're gone
I even act like I never cared at all
But your memory lingers on and I'm never really free
I look around and there's a heartache followin' me
I pawned my ring and everything that tied me to the past
I say, "I never loved her, never meant for it to last"
But I know it's just a game and the loser's always me
There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see
There'll be love and laughter
And peace ever after
Tomorrow
When the world is free
The shepherd will tend his sheep
I know the valley's gonna bloom again
And Jimmy will go to sleep
In his own little room again
Well, there'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see
Just you wait and see
When the world is free
Just you wait and see
When the world is free
When the world is free
Come on and wait and see
When the world is free
You say it's over now but it's easy to see
You still belong to him you're not happy with me
You can hide all your feelings until he passes by
That's when I see the blues in your pretty brown eyes
Your pretty brown eyes keep telling me lies
But they can't hide the hurt with a smile of disguise
You can hide all your feelings until he passes by
That's when I see the blues in your pretty brown eyes
[ piano ]
This world is not my home I'm just a passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh Lord you know I have no friend like you
If heaven's not my home then Lord what will I do
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
I have a loving mother just over in Gloryland
And I don't expect to stop until I shake her hand
She's waiting now for me in heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh Lord you know...
[ guitar ]
Just over in Gloryland we'll live eternaly the saints on every hand are shouting victory
Their songs of sweetest praise drift back from heaven's shore
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
(Daddy, my daddy teach me how to pray)
One night a sleepy little boy knelt beside my bed
He smiled and looked into my eyes and this is what he said
"Daddy, my daddy, you've taught me lots today
So daddy, my daddy teach me how to pray"
You brought me home a brand new kite, showed me how to fly
And there ain't no wonder kid who's dad can knock a ball so high
I'd like to thank God for you but I don't know what to say
So daddy my daddy teach me how to pray
I'd had to turn and leave his room, he began to cry
I didn't want my boy to know but so did I
His best pal forsaken him but what was there to say
For daddy, yes daddy had forgotten how to pray
When the shades of twilight close the day in my solitute I steal away
And a sweet familiar voice calls from the shadows of the talking walls
The talking walls bring laughter tears and pain
A touch of summer's love and winter's rain
Every step we made my heart recalls you are there behind the talking walls
[ piano ]
As they speak to me I hear your name and a spark is kindled to a flame
Such a vivid memory walks in and I'm reaching for the phone again
Take me in your arms and hold me
Like I've been holding you in my heart
Take me in your arms and tell me
That you've missed me since we've been apart
You just don't know how heartsick and lonesome I've been
Or how much I've prayed that you'd come back again
And take me in your arms and hold me
Like I've been holding you in my heart
You just don't know how heartsick and lonesome I've been
Or how much I've prayed that you'd come back again
And take me in your arms and hold me
Tahiti land of love o sweetest paradise where palms whisper softly to me
My hart verlang terug geluk wag op my daar aan haar wil ek my liefde openbaar
I remember oh so well when first we met the song of the palms I can't forget
(Sweet sweet Sue sweet sweet Sue)
Every little star above knows the one I love sweet Sue just you
And the moon up high knows the reason why sweet Sue it's you
No one else it seems ever shares my dreams
And without you dear I don't know what I'd do
In this heart of mine you live all the time sweet Sue just you
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(Every star above knows the one I love) it's you sweet Sue
(And the moon up high knows the reason why) it's you sweet Sue
Nobody else it seems ever shares my dreams
And without you dear...
Precious Lord, take my hand, if you know it
Lead me on, [Incomprehensible]
I am tired, I am weak, I am worn
Through the storm, through the night
Lead me on to the light
I know that someday
You'll want me to want you
When I'm in love with somebody else
You expect me to be true
And keep on loving you
Though I'm feeling blue
You think I can't forget you
Until someday
You'll want me to want you
When I'm strong for somebody new
Though you don't want me now
I'll get along somehow
And then I want want you
I know that someday
You'll want me to want you
When I'm strong for somebody new
And though you don't want me now
I'll get along somehow
Silver bells, silver bells
Soon it will be Christmas day
City sidewalks, busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there's a feeling of Christmas
Children laughing, people passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you'll hear
Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day
Strings of street lights
Even stop lights
Blink a bright red and green
As the shoppers rush home
With their treasures
Hear the snow crunch
See the kids bunch
This is Santa's big scene
And above all this bustle you'll hear
Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day
Silent night, holy night,
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child.
Holy infant so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Sleep in heavenly peace.
(Silent night, holy night,)
(Shepherds quake at the sight,)
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavenly hosts sing alleluia;
Christ the Savior, is born!
Christ the Savior, is born!
Silent night, holy night,
Son of God, love's pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth.
If I sent a rose to you for every time you made me blue
You'd have a room full of roses
If I sent a rose of white for every time I cried all night
You'd have a room full of roses
And if you took the petals and tore them all apart
You'd be tearing at the roses just the way you tore my heart
And if someday you're feeling blue you could send some roses too
I don't want a room full of roses, I just want my arms full of you
And if someday you're feeling blue you could send some roses too
Dear Senor Santa Claus I think I tell you what
I would like for Christmas and I hope you won't forgot
I only want a peso that I can have for mine
To get my senorita something for Christmas time
I don't believe you read the card last Christmas that I sent
You come to see the kids across the street and then you went
Dear Senor Santa Claus I think me understand
Sometimes the toys all gone before you reach the Rio Grande
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Dear Senor Santa Claus I tell you what I think
I no got a stockin' I set out my piggy bank
So please bring me peso that I can have for mine
To get my senorita something for Christmas time
On Christmas Eve I watch for you and I no sleep a wink
If I no get Lolita something she feel sad I think
So please Senor Santa Claus this Christmas be so grand
If I get peso to buy ring for my Lolita's hand
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I don't know what I buy for her I think I buy a rose
So she can wear it in her hair most everywhere she goes
Please Senor Santa Claus this Christmas be so grand
If I get peso to buy ring for my Lolita's hand
I peeked in to say goodnight
And then I heard my child in prayer
"Send for me some scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for my hair"
All the stores were locked and shuttered
All the streets were dark and bare
In our town no scarlet ribbons
No scarlet ribbons for her hair
Through the night my heart was aching
Just before the dawn was breaking
I peeked in and on her bed
In gay profusion laying there
Scarlet ribbons, scarlet ribbons
Pretty scarlet ribbons for her hair
If I live to be a hundred
I will never know from where
Came those lovely scarlet ribbons
When the trumpet has sounded and at judgment, we stand
And the Lord, up in heaven, takes you by the hand
If, for things I've done wrong, I am sent down below
Satan can't hold me this much, I know
Satan can't hold me, nobody can
Angel or devil, spirit or man
Through the valleys of darkness, I'll come to your side
Your love my beacon, my love, my guide
I will climb over mountains, fly up in the blue
I'll swim every river that keeps me from you
Till that wonderful day we're together again
Satan can't hold me, true love must win
(Roses roses au au ua)
Roses, I send you roses
With all the love their tender blossoming discloses
Just like my arms
They'll open wide
You'll see my heart inside
Please dear, embrace the roses
Until I come to you and when the long day closes
Our spark of love
Will burst to flame
And put the red red roses to shame
(Please dear, embrace the roses)
(Until I come to you and when the long day closes)
Our spark of love
Will burst to flame
And put the red red roses to shame
Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters
Hungry every minute of the day
Roly Poly knowin' all the biscuits
Long as he can chew it it's okay
He can eat an apple pie
And never even bat an eye
He likes everything from a soup to hay
Roly Poly daddy's little fatty bet
He's gonna be a man someday
Roly Poly scrambled eggs for breakfast
Bread and jelly twenty times a day
Roly Poly eats a hard day dinner
It takes lots of strength to run and play
Bowls up weeds and does the chores
Runs both ways to all the stores
He wears up that appetite that way
Roly Poly daddy's little fatty bet
He's gonna be a man someday
I used to be a railroad bum a living on the go
I rode freights from Canada down to Mexico
From sunny Cal to Minnesota where the rippling waters falls
I never seemed to have a dime but I had myself a ball
Singing hi le hi lo, he li le li lo
I used to be a railroad bum
But I'm not anymore
I walked in the Silver Dollar in Reno one night
Dropped a quarter in a one armed bandit the lemons lined up right
Took my winnings then played poker and I won ten thousand more
I used to be a railroad bum
But I'm not anymore
Singing hi le hi lo, he li le li lo
I used to be a railroad bum
But I'm not anymore
When cotton's white in Tennessee and shrimp boats sail in Maine
Peach picking time soon will find me ridin' a Georgia train
'Cause I get restless when I'm still I guess I always will
Want to keep traveling all my life over another hill
Singing hi le hi lo, he li le li lo
I used to be a railroad bum
But I'm not anymore
Singing hi le hi lo, he li le li lo
I used to be a railroad bum
Precious mem'ries unseen angels sent from somewhere to my soul
How they linger ever near me as the sacred past unfold
Precious mem'ries how they linger how they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight precious sacred scenes unfold
As I travel on life's pathway know not what the years may hold
And as I ponder hope grows fonder precious mem'ries flood my soul
Please leave my darling alone she's the only love I have known
Go find someone else I want her for myself so please leave my darling alone
Down deep she wants to be true but like a child with a toy bright and new
The fascination is there and she might learn to care
Then she'd trade the old for the new
So please leave my darling alone without her I just can't go on
There's a little girl lives on our street she's awful sweet and pretty
The boys stand on their heads for her but she thinks they're all silly
She's got freckles on her nose her hair is light and sandy
Penelope Candance is her name but we call her Penny Candy
She doesn't know what a nickel is she's got no use for dollars
There's always a penny in her hand and a licorise on her collar
She's the sweetest girl in town the little boys think she's a dandy
But the monkey shines don't bother her when she's eatin' Penny Candy
Penny Candy she eats that messy kind Penny Candy she eats it all the time
[ guitar ]
She brightens up the neighborhood her little face is always glowing
And when she's in a hurry we all know where she's a going
It's to the little corner store that's awful close and handy
Then once again her happy face is black with Penny Candy
Penny Candy she eats that messy kind Penny Candy she eats it all the time
[ guitar ]
She's always got a smile for you if you should ever meet her
And with Candy on her face her smile is a little sweeter
Penelope Candance is her name and she likes that fine and dandy
But if you want to see her dimples show just call her Penny Candy
I strolled to an old mission garden and as I was kneeling alone
An arm gently fell on my shoulder it was the padre of old San Antone
We went for a walk in the garden and as we were talking alone
He told why he came to the mission to the mission in old San Antone
Then the chapel bells they rang and an angel chorus sang
"Mi amor mi amigo" from the sky
Then he kneeled down to pray in the garden and whispered Mi amore mi Corazonne
I met you on the Sunday night by that Monday morning
Overnight although I wondered overnight what's wrong with me
Overnight love walked right in and shook me like a tree
Oh I sat down when I got home and gave my heart a warnin'
Overnight I dreamed about you overnight while count the sheep
Overnight I felt for you so hard I couldn't sleep
All night long I wished you were my own
And when I came to I was huggin' you like a hound dog hugs a bone
All night long my heart was standing still
And when I got up I pitched myself to see if this was real
Then you came by and told me dear the same sweet Monday morning
Overnight you dreamed about me overnight you loved me too
Overnight we found the dream that really did come true
(All night long I wished you were my own...
Out with someone new almost every day
people look at me I can hear them say
He's so lucky he has everything going his way
I can't let them know that I really don't
I'm not with the one that I really want
And I'm still in love with the one that got away
The one that got away took all my love not just a part
The one that got away got away with my heart
If we chance to meet on some lonely street
And I pass you by without a word to say
I'm just thinking 'bout the one that got away
[ piano ]
Give me one dozen roses put my heart in beside 'em
Send them to the one I love
She'll be glad to recieve 'em and I know she'll believe 'em
There's something we've been talking of
There may be orange blossoms later I think that there will
She's done something to me and my heart won't keep still
Give me one dozen roses put my heart in beside them send them to the one I love
[ vibes ]
Once upon a time life was lovely
I never found time to complain
Once upon a time blue skies were mine
But now it's beginning to rain
I'm so unprepared for the weather
Although there's a storm in my heart
I'll just ignore the weather pretend
We're together and linger alone in the dark
I've always been told that
The rainbow usually follows the rain
But there's no glow of a rainbow
No sign of sunshine again
I'll just let the clouds cast their shadows
And hide that old moon from my view
Because if it finds me it only reminds me
Of once upon a time with you
When that old moon finds me
It only reminds me
Of once upon a time with you
Ver in die Ou Kalahari daar sing die Boere so
Gee ons die Ou Kalahari die Ou Kalahari bo
In misty plains all around me the burning sun and sand
Lovely and peacful surroundings my old Kalahari land
Sonbesies sing in jou bosse die hittige son te versmaai
Rooi Afrikaner-osse sien jy om elke draai
Ver in die Ou Kalahari tot daar in die Molopo
Gee ons die Ou Kalahari die Ou Kalahari bo
[ guitar ]
When I am called on safari by him whom I cannot deny
There's an old Christmas card in an old dusty trunk
And it brings back sweet memories dear to me
'Though it's faded and worn, it's as precious as the morn
When I found it 'neath our first Christmas tree
I thrill with every word, every line
Guess I'm always sentimental 'round this time
Pardon me if a tear falls among my Christmas cheer
It's the memory of an old Christmas card
You know, I don't know why I get to feeling sentimental
About this time, every year
But every time I see a Christmas card
I somehow can't help reminiscing
About the very first Christmas that you and I spent together
What a beautiful Christmas card you gave me that year
Why I know you must have looked through thousands of cards
To find that wonderful poem that still brings a tear to my eyes
I thrill with every word, every line
Guess I'm always sentimental 'round this time
Pardon me if a tear falls among my Christmas cheer
O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold Him, born the King of angels
O come let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him
O come let us adore Him, Christ, the Lord
Yeah, Lord, we greet Thee born this happy morning
Jesus to Thee be glory given
Word of the Father now in flesh appearing
O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him
It was just a neighborhood dance
That's all that it was, but, oh, what it seemed to be
It was like a masquerade ball with costumes and all
?Cause you were at the dance with me
It was just a ride on a train
That's all that it was, but, oh, what it seemed to be
It was like a trip to the stars
To Venus and Mars ?cause you were on the train with me
And when I kissed you, darling
It was more than just a thrill for me
It was the promise, darling
Of all the things that fate had willed for me
It was just a wedding in June
That's all that it was, but, oh, what it seemed to be
It was like a royal affair with everyone there
?Cause you said, yes I do to me
The days are so long, nost everything's wrng, For now I'm alone and blue.
I still love you dear, I wish you were here. Come back and forgive me, please do.
Oh how I miss you tonight miss you when lights are low
Oh how I need you tonight more than you'll ever know
Each moment that we're apart you're never out of my heart
But I'd rather be lonely and wait for you only
Oh, pal how I miss you tonight.
My soul is lost so lonely and so cold just like a lamb that has strayed from the fold
Across the barren waste of sin I roam
Oh gentle shepherd hear my cry and lead me home
The hours go by on frightened wings of flight
While wolves of hell are waiting for the night
To claim the soul that wandered from the fold
Oh gentle shepherd hear my cry and save my soul
Oh gentle shepherd hear my lonely cry and in Thy cool green pastures let me lie
Beside the still clear waters lead Thou me
As die awendskadus daal kom ek jou weer eendag haal
Jy's my nooientjie van die Ou Transvaal
Ons sal wandel na die vlei onder sterreprag so vry in ons hart sal ons liefde bly
Deur die jare deur gevare sal jy jonk bly en kosbaar vir my
Deur die jare deur gevare sal 'n glimlag my na jou toe lei
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God is keeping the night watch for you and for me
Bright stars are watching the world as it sleeps
Shepherds watch over the little white sheep
The lighthouse is shining for ships far at sea
As God keeps the night watch for you and for me
So sleep, sleep in peace and rest
Don't be afraid of the darkness
All's well for over the land and the sea
God's keeping the night watch for you and for me
God is keeping the night watch for you and for me
So sleep, sleep in peace and rest
Don't be afraid of the darkness
All's well for over the land and the sea
Missing you can't help but wish
That you were in my arms tonight making love to me
Kissing you that's all I want to do
It never seems just right now that we're apart
I always spend my time just writing lines to you
Can't wait for you to write saying you love me too
Missing you can't help but wish
That you were in my arms tonight making love to me
I always spend my time just writing lines to you
Can't wait for you to write saying you love me too
Missing you can't help but wish
Just because the moon is bright and no sign he's watching us tonight
Let me hold your hand may be love you just a little
The moon just went behind a cloud and I won't whisper very loud
Let me whisper in your ear maybe love you just a little
Some folks talk against romance and say we shouldn't do it
Don't you pay no attention to what they say you know there ain't nothing to it
Love's what makes the world go round and you're the roundest thing I've found
Let me hold your hand maybe love you just a little
[ fiddle - steel - piano ]
Just because the moon is bright...
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you
You're so like that lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely, they have blamed you
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?
Do you smile to tempt the lover, Mona Lisa
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
Do you smile to tempt the lover, Mona Lisa
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
(Just walking in the rain lonely and blue)
Just walking in the rain getting soak and wet
Torturing my heart by trying to forget so alone and blue
All because my heart still remembers you
People come to windows they all stare at me
They shake their heads in sorrow saying who can this fool be
Just walking in rain thinking how we met
Knowing things have changed somehow I can't forget
[ sax]
People come to windows...
Mexicali Rose, stop crying
I'll come back to you, some sunny day
Every night you'll know that I'll be pining
Every hour a year while I'm away
Dry those big brown eyes and smile, dear
Vanish all those tears and please don't cry
Kiss me once again and hold me
Mexicali Rose, goodbye
I'll come back to you, some sunny day
Every hour a year while I'm away
Dry those big brown eyes and smile, dear
Vanish all those tears and please don't cry
Kiss me once again and hold me
You'll meet many just like me upon life's busy street
With shoulders stooped and heads bowed down
And eyes that stare in defeat or souls that live within the past
Where sorrow plays all parts, where a living death is all that's left
For men with broken hearts
You have no right to be the judge to criticize and condemn
Just think but for grace of God, it would be you instead of him
One careless step a thoughtless deed and then the mystery starts
And to those who weep death comes cheap
These men with broken hearts
Oh, so humble you should be if they come passing by
For it's written that the greatest men, never get too big to cry
Some lose faith in love and life when sorrow shoots her darts
And with hope all gone they walk alone
These men with broken hearts
You've never walked in that man's shoes or seen things through his eyes
Or stood and watched with helpless hands while the heart inside you dies
Some were paupers some were kings and some were masters of the arts
But in their shame they're all the same
These men with broken hearts
Life sometimes can be so cruel that a heart will pray for death
God why must these living dead know pain with every breath
So help your brother along the road, no matter where you start
For the God that made you, made them too
These men with broken hearts
Take one fresh and tender kiss
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy
Memories are made of this
Don't forget a small moonbeam
Folded lightly with a dream
Your lips and mine, two sips of wine
Memories are made of this
Then add the wedding bells
One house where lovers dwell
Three little kids for the flavor
Stir carefully through the days
See how the flavor stays
These are the dreams you will savor
With his blessings from above
Serve it generously with love
One man, one wife, one love, true life
Sweet memories are made of this
May the good Lord bless and keep you whether near or far away
May you find that long awaited golden day today
May your troubles all be small ones and your fortunes ten times ten
May the good Lord bless and keep you till we meet again
May you walk with sunlight shining and a bluebird in every tree
May there be a silver lining back on every cloud you see
Fill your dreams with sweet tomorrows never mind what might have been
May the good Lord bless and keep you till we meet again
All alone tonight I dream in my land of an island for across the sea
A little bit of heaven they call Ireland where an angel waits for me
Maureen Maureen my heart is still with pain
To be with you and to hold you in my arms again
In all my dreams I dream of you Maureen
And the misty moonlit meadows and the hills of green
The hills that heard us whisper the secrets of our heart
The hills that heard us promise that we would never part
Maureen Maureen someday white sails will gleam
Long time ago in Bethlehem so the Holy Bible say
Mary's boy child Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day
Hark now hear the angels sing a new King's born today
That man will live for evermore because of Christmas Day
Trumpets sound and angels sing listen what they say
That man will live for evermore because of Christmas Day
While Shepherds watched their flock by night they see a bright new star
Then hear a choir of angels sing music seems to come from a far
Now Joseph and his wife Mary come to Bethlehem that night
They found no place to lay the child not a single room was in sight
Hark now hear the angels sing...
By and by they found a little nook in a stable so forlorned
In a manger cold and dark Mary's little boy was born
It's a great big world full of little surprises
There's a lot of pretty girls in all kinds of shapes and sizes
And lucky me although my chances were few
In this great big world I found little ole you
Little ole you no bigger than a minute it's hard to believe this big world had you in it
It's a fast life and everybody's lookin' so busy
There's so much to do it almost makes me dizzy
In the middle of it all you appeared right out of the blue
In this great big world I found little ole you
[ piano ]
Little ole you no bigger than a minute...
In this great big world I found little ole you
An empty glass
Another coin in the jukebox
This pain inside
Keeps hurtin' on and on
The music starts
A blue-blue song is playin'
You don't need me anymore
Now I'm alone
But the guy
Who writes that lonely music
Needs lonely hearts like mine
That he can write about
As the words tell their story
How I miss you
This lonely music
Keeps reminding me of you
So talk to me
Talk to me, oh lonely music
It tells me I'm a fool
For trusting you
Just can't hold back the tears
Any longer
This lonely music
Keeps reminding me of you
So talk to me
Talk to me, oh lonely music
It tells me I'm a fool
For trusting you
And as the words tell their story
How I miss you
This lonely music
Linda, Linda, I wish you were mine
When I go to sleep I never count sheep
I count all the charms about Linda
And lately it seems in all of my dreams
I walk with my arms about Linda
But what good does it do me
For Linda doesn't know I exist
I can't have feeling blue me
'Cause just think of all the lovin' I've missed
We pass on the street, my heart skips a beat
I say to myself hello Linda
If only she'd smile, I'd stop her a while
And then I would get to know Linda
But miracle still happened
And when my lucky star begins to shine
With one lucky break I'll make Linda mine
We pass on the street, my heart skips a beat
I say to myself hello Linda
If only she'd smile, I'd stop her a while
And then I would get to know Linda
But miracle still happened
And when my lucky star begins to shine
Dear heart, there is something I must tell you
Something sad and so hard for me to say
For I know how much you always loved her
And how you always hoped that she'd come back someday
But day after day my hopes grow dimmer
As I watched life and love passing me by
And the life I live is empty and so lonely
But you just lived for her and slowly let me die
You know she left me for another
So give her up, let her go, let it be
Dear heart, if you won't stop beating for her
Then dear heart, stop beating for me
You know she left me for another
So give her up, let her go, let it be
Dear heart, if you won't stop beating for her
I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses
He speaks and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet that the birds they hush their singing
And the melody that He sends to me
Within my heart is still ringing
And, and He walks with me
And He talks with me
And He tells me that I am His own
And the joy we share as we tarry, tarry there
None other has ever, ever known
None other has ever, ever known
None other has ever known
None other has ever known
Take your drink to the end of the bar buddy let her be now don't be a fool
I'd soon have a hot seat in Sing Sing buddy
Than to sit down by her on that stool
What's that you say I guess you're right it's nothin' to me
[ guitar ]
See that man she belongs to him buddy better drink up and go while you can
I can tell by the way he looks at you buddy
He's sure out with temper jealous man
What's that you say I guess you're right it's nothin' to me
[ guitar ]
There you are stretched out on the floor buddy
Now you see what you made him do
Here they come to take him off to jail buddy
And tomorrow someone will burry you
Tonight we'll reach the hour we set for parting
We wanted to be free, we both said so
But the closer to that hour, the more I?m hurtin'
My heart will break, it hurts so much to see you go
What happened to the love we knew?
Where did we lose it?
How can a love as sweet as ours bring heartache so?
Why does it have to end this way?
What?s there to do, what can I say?
When it hurts, it hurts so much to see you go
What happened to the love we knew?
Where did we lose it?
How can a love as sweet as ours bring heartache so?
Why does it have to end this way?
What?s there to do, what can I say?
Is this me
Is it really me
Sittin' here crying
Well it shouldn't be
It just can't be me
My eyes are lying
Cause that's not you
It just can't be you
You wouldn't be cheatin'
It's someone else
Yes it's someone else
Whose darling's leavin'
I can't believe my eyes
You took me by surprise
Oh how I wish I'd just stayed home
I'd still be thinking you're all my own
This isn't me
It just can't be
Me sittin' here crying
Is it just a dream
I know it's just a dream
Is it really over, is this the end of the line?
Don't tell me I'm losing the love that was mine
If you're really leaving, take some part of me
So I'll always remember how sweet love used to be
I wonder who's stepping into my shoes, who can he be?
I can tell by your eyes our love has died and it's over for me
I wonder who's stepping into my shoes, who can he be?
I can tell by your eyes our love has died and it's over for me
In the misty moonlight
By the flickering firelight
Any place is all right
Long as I'm with you
In a faraway land
On the tropic sea sand
If your hand's in my hand
I won't be blue
Way up on the mountain
Way down in the valley
I know I'll be happy
Any place, anywhere I don't care
In the misty moonlight
By the flickering firelight
Any place is all right
Long as you are there
I could be happy in one little room
With only a table and a chair
As happy as I'd be in a kingdom by the sea
Darling if you were there
And I could be rich or I could be poor
But if you were by my side
I could be anyplace in this whole wide world
And I know I'd be satisfied
Way up on the mountain
Way down in the valley
I know I'll be happy
Any place, anywhere I don't care
In the misty moonlight
By the flickering firelight
Any place is all right
I'll tell you a story of a love and his flame you've read about him he's Ichabot Crane
He went a courtin' one night on his horse and Sleepy Hollow they both had to cross
While ridin' and thinkin' bout the girl he would wed
It was there that old Ichabot lost his head
Across Sleepy Hollow a horseman did follow and follow and follow poor Ichabot Crane
Don't want to end up like Ichabot Crane who lost his head and went up in the flame
Sleepy Hollow I'm gonna evade that was the mistake that poor Ichabot made
I'm a losin' my head and startin' to burn ain't any too smart but I'm willin' to learn
You can't talk me in to a staying out late that was poor Ichabot's biggest mistake
Across Sleepy Hollow a horseman did follow and follow and follow poor Ichabot Crane
[ guitar ]
In the legend of Sleepy Hollow tis said the horseman had a pumpkin for a head
My head may be sore and I may not be bright
Just one more little kiss and that's all for tonight
I'm afraid that your kisses will drive me insane and I'll end up like Ichabot Crane
I'm a headin' right home and a jumpin' in bed
That's the best way I know to hang on to my head
You look lovelier tonight than I remember I'm so glad I got to see you once again
I've enjoyed just sitting down and reminiscing
But I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand
There's so much more between us than this table
All those years all those dreams all those plans
Guess you know without me saying I still love you
But I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand
[ guitar ]
So you say you're happy now you've found a new love
Tell him I said he's a lucky lucky man
No I don't think I'll have time to see his picture
I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand
I walked by the river
Where we said goodbye
Thought of your kisses
And didn?t even cry
I?m gettin' better
I?m gettin' better
I talked with an old friend
He asked about you
I managed to tell him
With just a tear or two
I?m gettin' better
I?m gettin' better
I know I?ll never be the same
I was standin' too close to the flame
But it doesn?t hurt so much
To hear your name
I think I?ll make it
I?m gettin' better
I'm hurtin' inside, where it doesn't show
I'm hurtin' inside but you'll never know
I'm still in love with you, though you no longer love me
And I would never ever want your pity, you see
This hurtin' inside is so hard to bear
Especially at night when you are not there
I might be better off if I broke down and cried
But I've got my pride so I'm hurtin' inside
This hurtin' inside is so hard to bear
Especially at night when you are not there
I might be better off if I broke down and cried
I'll always love you like I used to love you
When I loved a little girl
Whose eyes were blue whose heart was true
Whose hair hung down in curls
I'll always trust you like I used to trust you
When I gave to you my heart
We'll love honor and obey
Till death do us part
I'll always want you like I used to want you
When your blue eyes made me fall
When the rest are gone I'll still own
The sweetest of them all
I'll always love you like I used to love you
When I loved a little girl
Whose eyes were blue, whose heart was true
Whose hair hung down in curls
I'll always want you like I used to want you
When your blue eyes made me fall
When the rest are gone I'll still own
There's a house just downstreet
a welcome mat outside the door
But it's for him and not for me
I never pass there anymore
Within this house there is a girl
I'll always adore
But I've been banished from her world
I never pass there anymore
Within this girl there is a heart
and in this heart there is a love
But it's a love for someone else
I'm not the one she's dreaming of
Yes there's a house just downstreet
I've been there many times before
But now it's best we never meet
I never pass there anymore
Last night was the worst night of my life no doubt
'Cause while I stayed at home someone else took you out
I cried 'cause I love you with all of my might
And I missed me, how I missed me at your house last night
I missed holding hands walking out on your lawn
I missed the sweet kiss that was mine for so long
Were you happy with new arms wrapped around you so tight?
I missed me, how I missed me at your house last night
Did the neighbors say they noticed anything strange
Like a different car parked in your drive for a change?
Did they watch as he kissed you beneath the porch light?
Did they miss me like I missed me at your house last night?
I missed holding hands walking out on your lawn
I missed the sweet kiss that was mine for so long
Were you happy with new arms wrapped around you so tight?
I love you more, love you more
Love you more, love you more
I love you more
Than every wave that breaks upon
Some far and distant
Lonely island shore
I love you more
Than every drop of rain that falls
With every drop that falls
I love you more
At night I watch the moon on high
And count the stars up in the sky
For every star that shines tonight
My love for you is just as bright
I love you more
Forever I'll be true to you
I know, you'll always love me true
Forever more
(Ever more)
At night I watch the moon on high
And count the stars up in the sky
For every star that shines tonight
My love for you is just as bright
I love you more
Forever I'll be true to you
I know, you'll always love me true
Forever more
When all your loves have ended, when all your friends have flown
Who'll be around to want you when all your loves have gone
Only a fool would do it after the way you've done
But how many fools would have you, I know one
This fool keeps wondering why he fell in love at all
But you might need this fool around in case you fall
After the party's over and you've had your fill of fun
If you need a fool to forgive you, I know one
You never know you might be lonely when all your loves have missed
It wouldn't hurt to keep an extra fool on your list
After your heart's been broken and it needs a place to run
If you'll take a fool who loves you, I know one
I guess I'm crazy for loving you you tell me many ways that I won't do
My heart keeps saying that I'm a fool I guess I'm crazy for loving you
I don't dare let you go it's unfair this I know I don't care if it's so it has to be
My heart keeps saying that I'm a fool I guess I'm crazy for loving you
I don't dare let you go it's unfair this I know I don't care if it's so it has to be
My heart keeps saying that I'm a fool I guess I'm crazy for loving you
How long has it been since you talked with the Lord
And told him your heart's hidden secrets
How long since you prayed how long since you stayed
On your knees till the light shone through
How long has it been since your mind felt at ease
How long since your heart knew no burden
Can you call him your friend how long has it been since you knew that he cared for you
How long has it been since you knelt by your bed and prayed to the Lord up in heaven
How long since you knew that he'd answer you
And would keep you the long night through
How long has it been since you woke with the dawn and felt that the day's worth the living
My friends all say what a pity that you've been gone so long
Wonder how you are in the city oh honey won't you please come home
The cotton and the corn have been gathered the green green pastures are gone
The day looks like stormy weather honey won't you please come home mhm
[ piano ]
The whippoorwills have started calling the night winds whisper a song
Soon the tears will be falling oh honey won't you please come home
Soon the snow will be falling down comes teardrops and moan
Well, I've been a traveler most of my life
Never took a home, never took a wife
Ran away young and decided to roam
Wanna see my mama and my daddy back home
Home, where the river runs cold
The water tastes good, the winters ain't cold
Home, where the trees grow tall
The home fires burn, the whippoorwill's call
I remember stories that my daddy used to tell
My eyes would get big and his chest would swell
I could sit for hours and listen with glee
As he'd tell of how he lived when he's a boy like me
Home, where the river runs cold
The water tastes good, the winters ain't cold
Home, where the trees grow tall
The home fires burn, the whippoorwill's call
Well, mama dear, mama, do you still love your boy
After all my roamin' can I still bring you joy
Mom sent a letter, got it not long ago
I'm traveling the highway to nowhere cause I can't find the road to your heart
This old road is so rough and so rocky I get lost on the highway to your heart
This highway to nowhere keeps calling your heart's at the end of the line
But I always get lost on a detour I guess I don't understand the signs
[ steel - fiddle ]
I've travelled this highway so long now but I know I'm no closer to your heart
Down this long lonesome road I'll keep traveling
Though I know I've been lost from the start
This highway to nowhere I'll follow the road's dark but I keep trudging on
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 juke box 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't say the words I want to hear
While you're with another man
Do you want me answer yes or no
Darling I will understand
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 juke box way down low
Each time I touch a rose petal and breathe the sweet fragrance it brings
I know there's a God up in heaven, no human could create these things
The dogwood, the oak and the willow so gracefully wave in the breeze
The dogwood, I'll always remember my Lord died upon one of these
The sunset in its golden splendor, such colors no artist can do
I know when I look on its beauty, each page in the Bible is true
No picture or painting can capture the beauty of any of these
Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue
Have you ever loved someone just as I love you
Can't you see I'm sorry for each mistake I've made
Can't you see I've changed dear can't you see I've paid
Be a little forgiving take me back in your heart
How can I go on living now that we're apart
If you knew what I've been through then you'd know why I ask you
Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue
[ strings ]
Have Thine own way Lord
Have Thine own way
Thou art the potter I am the clay
Mold me and make me after Thy will
While I am waiting yielded and still
Have Thine own way Lord
Have Thine own way
Search me and try me Master today
Whiter than snow Lord wash me just now
As in Thy presence humbly I bow
Have Thine own way Lord
Have Thine own way
Hold over my being absolute sway
Filled with Thy spirit till all can see
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Could I tell you once again somehow?
Have I told with all my heart and soul how I adore you?
Well, darlin' I'm telling you now
My world would end today if I should lose you
I'm no good without you, anyhow
This heart would break in two if you refuse me
Well, darlin' I'm telling you now
Have I told you lately how I miss you?
When the stars are shining in the sky
Have I told you why the nights are long
When you're not with me?
Well, darlin' I'm telling you now
My world would end today if I should lose you
I'm just no good without you, anyhow
This heart would break in two if you refuse me
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?
The love light that shone so strong
Pretty love light that shone so strong
If I came home tonight, would that same light be burnin'
Or have I stayed away too long?
I'm just outside of town, I'll soon be at your door
Or maybe I'd be wrong to hurry there
I'd best keep out of town and worry you no more
For maybe someone else has made you care
Have all my dreams gone wrong
All my beautiful dreams gone wrong
If I came home tonight, would you still be my darling
I've been accused, convicted and condemned
The trial's over and now I face the end
Is this your way of telling me we're through
When all I'm guilty of is loving you?
You were the judge, the jury all in one
You found me guilty and now my term's begun
I must confess I've never been untrue
And all I'm guilty of is loving you
Loving you and now I'm losing you
Losing you for things I didn't do
Please let your heart consider an appeal
For now you know exactly how I feel
Don't punish me for things I didn't do
When all I'm guilty of is loving you
Irene goodnight Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene goodnight Irene I'll see you in my dreams
Last Saturday night I got married me and my wife settled down
Now me and my wife have parted so I'll take another stroll downtown
Irene goodnight Irene...
Sometimes I live in the country sometimes I live in town
Sometimes I take a great notion to jump in the river and drown
Good morning self how do you feel this morning
I must admit you don't look so pretty good
What made you say the things you said to your darling last night
I bet you'll change the things you said if you could
Good morning self how do you feel now that she's gone
And we just stand here you and me all alone
With nothing in this world but lonely loneliness
Although I cried your eyes are dry good morning Jim
Now don't try to pretend you don't remember
No need to lie about the way you treated her oh no
Just remember I was there when it happened
And I heard those things you said as she left
You're the only one to blame but we both must share the pain
If I have wounded any soul today
If I have caused ones foot to go astray
If I have walked in my own willful way
Dear Lord, forgive
Forgive the sins I have confessed to Thee
Forgive my secret sins I do not see
O guide me, love me and my keeper be
Everywhere you go sunshine follows you
And everywhere you go skies are always blue
Children love you, they seem to know
That you bring the roses out of the snow
And the whole world says hello, everywhere you go
Everywhere you go sunshine follows you
And everywhere you go skies are always blue
Children love you and they seem to know
That you bring the roses out of the snow
And the whole world says hello, everywhere you go
Children love you, they seem to know
You bring the roses out of the snow
Ja ek verlang na jou my liefling en ek droom van jou oe so blou
Ja ek dink net aan jou my liefling en my hart is'n mantel van rou
Toe jy my verlaat het is my wereld verskeur
Die son het ophou skyn en die maan het verkleur
Each time you leave I die a little say I'm foolish if you will
But no matter how I try each time you say goodbye
My foolish heart just won't be still
Each time you leave I die a little I'm so afraid I'll lose you dear
Hold me and say that you'll always stay I only live when you are near
[ steel ]
Poor little doll you're too young for tears
I'm in love with you honey up through my years
I know that you go for somebody else but he's gonna drop you he told me himself
Poor little doll the sun is your smile but there will be tears in just a short while
Don't let him hurt you and tear down your world oh don't you want to be my girl
Don't you want to move right into my heart
Don't give those blue tears a chance to start
A love true is mine shouldn't be overlooked
I'll let the world see that you've got me hooked
No kissing in corners like he once to do cause nobody hides a love that is true
To him you're a plaything to me you're a pearl oh don't you want to be my girl
Don't you want to move right into my heart...
Don't tell me her eyes are bright as diamonds
Don't tell me her lips are sweet as wine
Her smile thrills you so and I guess I ought to know
Your new love is an old love of mine
Don't tell me how she snuggles closer and laugs at every silly little line
I guess I ought to know you see I love her so your new love is a lost love of mine
[ guitar - steel ]
Don't tell me she's sweet as sugar candy don't tell me she's everything that's fine
Don't you realize to me it's no surprice your new love is an old love of mine
Don't tell me she'll wear a veil of white don't tell me it's your name now she'll sign
A friend told me that he saw you
In the arms of a love that you once knew
There was laughter in your voice, a smile upon your lips
And the devil in your pretty eyes of blue
I don't believe what my friend told me
I can't believe these things are really true
I know your heart beats for me and no other
Still I wonder my darling, did you
Did you return to the arms that held you tightly
To the lips that whispered words untrue
I love you too much to believe a careless rumor
Alone and so lonesome bored and so blue
I got the urge to ramble so I took a drink or two
It tempted me to trifle then my true heart went astray
So I wandered in dark water and just threw my life away
I know that it was wrong to fool around this way so long
Someone was sawing on the limb that I was sittin' on
I looked down and I found I could drown in deep dark water
So I cried when I realized I couldn't swim
A fool and his money calls for whiskey and for gin
Filled to the gills and falling for the weaknesses as a man
From one fool to another wrong is never right
I ignored advice from mother and brother look at me tonight
Unsteady as I go with deep dark water down below
They keep sawing louder on my limb and soon I'll have to go
Life's been small hear my call as I fall in deep dark water
I love those dear hearts and gentle people who live in my hometown
I love those dear hearts and gentle people who never ever let you down
They read the good book from Friday to Monday that's how the weekend goes
I've got a dreamhouse I'll build there one day with picket fence and rambling rose
I feel so welcome each time that I return till my happy heart's laughing like a clown
I love those dear hearts and gentle people who live and love in my hometown
[ piano ]
They read the good book from Friday to Monday that's how the weekend goes
I've got a dreamhouse I'll build there one day with picket fence and rambling rose
I feel so welcome each time that I return till my happy heart's laughing like a clown
I love those dear dear hearts and gentle people who'll never ever let you down
Dark moon a way up high up in the sky
Oh tell me why oh tell me why you've lost your splendor
Dark moon what is the cause your light withdraws
Is it because is it because I've lost my love
Mortals have dreams of love's perfect schemes
But they don't realize that love can sometimes bring
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 flow'rs are dying
Its you, its you must go and I must 'bide
But, come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's bare or white with snow
Yes, I'll be here in sunshine or in shadows
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so
(Bridge)
But, come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's bare or white with snow
Yes, I'll be here in sunshine or in shadows
I feel very strange there's evidence of a radical change
Could I be falling in love?
I see through a port new moons high above
Or is it just your intoxicating love?
My heart's a flaming fire the moment you appear
I have just one desire to have and hold you near
I've tried to resist the strange mystery of
The need for your kiss could I be falling in love
I have just one desire to have and hold you near
I've tried to resist the strange mystery of
The need for your kiss could I be falling in love
Could I be falling in love?
I wonder why you keep me waiting
Charmaine my Charmaine
I wonder when bluebirds are mating
Will you come back again
I wonder if I keep on praying
Will our dreams be the same
I wonder if you ever think of me too
Charmaine my Charmaine
Charmaine my Charmaine
Will you come back again
Bolandse nooientjie stil is die nag soet sy jou ruste na lang lange dag
Saans in my drome kom ek na jou smagtend na lonkies uit oe so blou
Berge en dale kan ons nooit skei want in die droomland ontmoet jy vir my
Well I'm sittin' here a glass so near filled with my one concern
Oh bottle you've done led me to the point of no return
You took away my happy days my life's a total wreck
You took the only things I owned so bottle take effect
Take effect and take away these blues that drive me wild
Take effect make me forget these troubles for a while
Then just lead me to those lights of blue on the corner of regret
In some barroom I'll lose my gloom so bottle take effect
[ piano ]
You took away my fortune while I drank away my pride
Humiliations my misfortune and there's no place left to hide
The best place is the gutter there I won't need respect
Cause when in Rome you'll do as the Romans do oh bottle take effect
(Wish I could lose these blues in my heart)
Blues in my heart oh how it aches
Nobody knows the sorrow it takes
I should have known right from the start
You'd leave me with these blues in my heart
(Gone is the love I couldn't hold
Just like a lamb that's straight from the fold)
What can I do what can I say
Blues in my heart have got me this way
Rain's falling down, down from the sky
Why even the sun's beginning to cry
Everything's wrong since we're apart
Oh I'm blue without my baby and it's hurtin' more each day
I'm blue without my baby since she left me and went away
Well she took a train to Memphis and she bought a one-way fare
She took a train to Memphis that day she told me she didn't care
I'm gonna search until I find her ask her what wrong did I do
Gonna kiss her till I remind her my love is faithful and true
Well I'm blue without my baby as blue as I can be
And I'll leave no stone uncovered till my baby comes back to me
I'm gonna search until I find her ask her what wrong did I do
Gonna kiss her till I remind her my love is faithful and true
Oh I'm blue without my baby I'm blue as I can be
And I'll leave no stone uncovered till my baby comes back to me
I'm calling to tell you it's over
Yes darling, you're now free to go
You're saying you're sorry you hurt me
But you hurt me much more than you know
You're asking me where this call comes from
Oh, I hope that you won't end up here
If your new romance turns out a failure
Here's where to find me my dear
I'm just on the blue side of lonesome
Right next to the Heartbreak Hotel
In a tavern that's known as Three Teardrops
On a bar stool, not doing so well
The hands on the clock never alter
For things never change in this place
There's no present, no past, no future
We're the ones who have lost in loves race
I'm just on the blue side of lonesome
Right next to the Heartbreak Hotel
In a tavern that's known as Three Teardrops
You'll be doin' all right with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue, blue Christmas
I'll have a blue Christmas without you
I'll be so blue just thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won't be the same dear, if you're not here with me
And when those blue snowflakes start fallin'
That's when those blue heartaches start callin'
You'll be doin' all right with you Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue, blue Christmas
And when those blue snowflakes start fallin'
That's when those blue heartaches start callin'
You'll be doin' all right with you Christmas of white
In the Blue Canadian Rockies spring is sighing through the trees
And the golden poppies are blooming round the banks of Lake Louise
Across the see they call me and I'm lonesome and so blue
For the Blue Canadian Rockies and the girl I love so true
[ trumpet ]
Spring is sighing through the trees
[ trumpet ]
Round the banks of Lake Luise
Blue Boy, that's what they call me
'Cause I'm so lonely, since I lost you
Blue Boy, I'm known as Blue Boy
You've found a new boy and now we're through
I had a twinkle in my eye
When our sweet love was new
Now all I do is moan and cry
And hunger after you
Blue Boy, I'll be a Blue Boy
Until you need me, as I need you
(I had a twinkle in my eye)
(When our sweet love was new)
Now all I do is moan and cry
And hunger after you
Blue Boy, I'll be a Blue Boy
Until you need me, as I need you
(Blue Boy)
As I need you
Back about eighteen hundred and some
A Louisiana couple had a red-headed son
No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe
So they just called him Billy Bayou
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
Billy was a boy, kinda big for his size
Red hair, freckles and big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the day he was born
Billy fought the battle of the Little Big Horn
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
One sad day Billy cried, "Ho Ho!
I can lick the feathers off of Geronimo"
He started off, the chief got mad
This nearly ended our Louisiana lad
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
One day in eighteen seventy-eight
A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate
He didn't know whether to stand there or run
He wound up married 'cuz he didn't either one
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
You are my guiding star the one that I can't live without
All these things I know you are beyond the shadow of a doubt
Through rain through snow or storm the coldest darkest hour out
Your love will keep me warm beyond the shadow of a doubt
[ fiddle - steel ]
No gates no bars my dear will ever serve to keep me out
Call my name and I'll be there beyond the shadow of a doubt
No need to say you're sorry
No need to feel ashamed
If I'm not the one you love
Don't feel you're to blame
I don't deny it hurts me
And this pain is hard to hide
But at least I lived a little while
Before I died
I lived long enough to know
The sweet thrill of your lips
I knew happiness
Right down to my finger tips
You'll always be a part of me
Though you can't be mine
At least I lived a little while
Before I died
Don't ask me to forget you
'Cause you mean too much to me
I couldn't even if I tried
Too many memories
My yesterday's were happy days
And each memory's locked inside
At least I lived a little while
Before I died
I lived long enough to know
The sweet thrill of your lips
I knew happiness
Right down to my finger tips
You'll always be a part of me
And though you can't be mine
At least I lived a little while
Each day I'll do a golden deed by helping those who are in need
My life on earth is but a spent and so I'll do the best I can
Life's evening sun is sinking low a few more days and I must go
To meet the deeds that I have done where there will be no setting sun
While going down life's weary road I'll try to lift some traveler's load
I'll try to turn the night to day make flowers bloom along the way
Be honest with me dear whatever you do
Remember you're mine dear so always be true
Wherever you wander on land or on sea if you really love me be honest with me
My poor heart would break dear if you were untrue
Asleep or awake dear I'll dream about you
For you are my darling you're all that I see if you really love me be honest with me
[ sax]
Auf wiederseh'n auf wiederseh'n
We'll meet again sweetheart
This lovely day has flown away
The time has come to part
We'll kiss again, like this again
Don't let a teardrop start
With love that's true I'll wait for you
Auf wiederseh'n sweetheart
(We'll kiss again, like this again)
(Don't let a teardrop start)
With love that's true I'll wait for you
Tonight while the snowflakes are falling
Here in my dreams I can see
The white cherry blossoms of shamon
Where I walked with Anna Marie
Anna Marie, Anna Marie
My heart remembers and sighs
Ce vous, ce vous, mi ami beaucoup
I miss you Anna Marie
My love was pledged to another
But I knew as I crossed the sea
That I'd never loved any other
As I loved my Anna Marie
Anna Marie, Anna Marie
My heart remembers and sighs
Ce vous, ce vous, mi ami beaucoup
I miss you Anna Marie
They say you've found somebody new
But that won't stop my lovin' you
I just can't let you walk away
Forget the love I had for you
Guess I could find somebody, too
But I don't want no one but you
How could you leave without regret
Am I that easy to forget
Before you leave be sure you find
You want his love much more than mine
'Cause I'll just say we've never met
If I'm that easy to forget
Before you leave be sure you find
You want his love much more than mine
'Cause I'll just say we've never met
If I'm that easy to forget
Almost you fell in love with me
Almost you were my bride to be
But each promise that was made
You have broken and betrayed
And left me with a faded memory
Almost my precious dreams came true
Almost you whispered dear I do
But someone new came by
And you left me here to cry
Oh, how close we were almost
Almost your heart I did possess
Almost you brought me happiness
But my dreams just won't come true
And there's nothing I can do
I put your favorite suit on and the tie that you loved so
I'm all dressed up and lonely with no place to go
I could go to a movie but in almost every show
You see a happy ending and that would hurt me so
I'll just stay at home and make believe that you are by my side
And when it's time to say goodnight, I know that I will cry
So I'll just kiss your picture and the tears will fall I know
I'm all dressed up and lonely with no place to go
I'm all dressed up and lonely with no place to go
Darling after loving you what else is there to do
Cause darling all the rest will just be second best
I know I'll go tonight comparing into you I'll be no good to anyone after loving you
Your love can't be replaced with just another pretty face
And heartaches will remain for they can't re-eraze
Many loves may come along but they won't live up to you
After awhile after awhile I'll learn to smile after awhile
I'll love again when my heart mends
I'll leave heartbreaks out high after awhile
Some day you'll learn just how I feel
When love brings you heartache only time can heal
Adios amigo, adios my friend
The road we have traveled has come to an end
When two love the same love, one love has to lose
And it's you who she longs for, it's you she will choose
Adios compadre, what must be must be
Remember to name one muchacho for me
I ride to the Rio, where my life I will spend
Adios amigo, adios my friend
Adios compadre, let us shed no tears
May all your mananas bring joy through the years
Away from these memories, my life I must spend
I have lived a life of sin, in this world I'm living in
I have done forbidden things I shouldn't do
I ask a beggar along the way if he could tell me where to stay
Where I could find real happiness and love that's true
Across the bridge there's no more sorrow
across the bridge there's no more pain
The sun will shine across the river
and you'll never be unhappy again
[ organ ]
Follow the footsteps of the King, till you hear the voices ring
They'll be singing out the glory of the Land
The river Jordan will be new,and the sound of trumpet you will hear
And you'll behold the most precious place never known to man
Across the bridge there's no more sorrow...
There is a new moon over my shoulder
And an old love still in my heart
I remember now that i am older
What you told me the day we had to part:
You promised with the new moon you would be coming back to me
Many moons have passed, still i am waiting patiently
There is a new moon over my shoulder
And an old love still in my heart
There is a new moon over my shoulder
And an old love still in my heart
Now i am wishing i had been bolder, then perhaps we would'nt be so far apart
You promised you will write to me, but so forth not a line
Still i am waiting pariently that someday you will be mine
There is a new moon over my shoulder
If there's water in the desert
Sand out in the sea
If you were not an angel
Sweet as you can be
If you can turn the night to day
Make all your 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
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
I can't live without a heartbeat
I can't stop loving you
There're 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
I can't live without a heartbeat
(God is keeping the night watch for you and for me)
Bright stars are watching the world as it sleeps
Shepherds watch over the little white sheep
The lighthouse is shining for ships far at sea
As God keeps the night watch for you and for me
So sleep sleep in peace and rest don't be afraid of the darkness
All's well for over the land and the sea
God's keeping the night watch for you and for me
[ piano - vibes ]
(God is keeping the night watch for you and for me)
So sleep sleep in peace and rest...
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't say the words I want to hear
While you're with another man
Do you want me answer yes or no
Darlin' I will understand.
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.
Oh, little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
(Yet in thy dark streets shineth)
(The everlasting light)
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight
O Holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend to us, we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born in us today
(We hear the Christmas angels)
(The great glad tidings tell)
Oh, come to us, abide with us
I know they've been sayin'
That you broke every rule
That one day I'll lose you
'Cause I'm nobody's fool
I'll always have heartaches
As long as you're mine
But if I should lose you
I'd be lonely all time
So I'd rather be your fool
Than no fool at all
I'll just spend those lonely hours
Just hoping you'll call
There was no love before you
Only empty affairs
But I'm a fool, forever faithful
For the little you care
So I'd rather be your fool
Than no fool at all
I'll just spend those lonely hours
Just hoping you'll call
There was no love before you
Only empty affairs
But I'm a fool, forever faithful
I'm kissin' your picture, goodbye
And I hate to treat it this way
But you said to forget all that reminds me of you
So I must throw your picture away
I must throw your picture away
How can I just cast aside
A love that's in my heart to stay
Where do I go to throw a picture away?
Where do I go to throw a picture away?
I know I won't forget all that reminds me of you
When I can look at your picture each day
It's a paper impression a most prized possession
Where do I go to throw a picture away?
Where do I go to throw a picture away?
How can I just cast aside
A love that's in my heart to stay
Where do I go to throw a picture away?
We thank Thee each morning for a new born day
Where we may work the fields of new mown hay
We thank Thee for the sunshine and the air that we breathe
Oh Lord, we thank Thee
Thank Thee for the rivers that run all day
Thank Thee for the little birds that sing along the way
Thank Thee for the trees and the deep blue sea
Oh Lord, we thank Thee
Oh yes, we thank Thee, Lord, for every flower that blooms
Birds that sing, fish that swim and the light of the moon
We thank Thee every day as we kneel and pray
That we were born with eyes to see these things
Thank Thee for the fields where the clover is grown
Thank Thee for the pastures where cattle may roam
Thank Thee for Thy love so pure and free
Oh Lord, we thank Thee
Oh yes, we thank Thee, Lord, for every flower that blooms
Birds that sing, fish that swim and the light of the moon
We thank Thee every day as we kneel and pray
I've got a wagon load, a wagon load of love
All I need is a pretty little girl, to give my heart a shove
I've got a basket full, a basket full of kisses
Won't you come and ride upon my wagon load of love?
We'll ride, ride, ride down lover's lane together
Side by side in every kind of weather
This wedding band will fit your hand like a brand new glove
So, won't you come and ride upon my wagon load of love?
I've got a wagon load of things to keep us happy
There'll be girls to call you mom and boys to call me pappy
All I need is a pretty little girl, to give my heart a shove
So, won't you come and ride upon my wagon load of love?
We'll ride, ride, ride down lover's lane together
Side by side in every kind of weather
I've got a wagon load of things to grant your wishes
All I need is a pretty little girl to help me wear the britches
This wedding band will fit your hand like a brand new glove
Throw another log on the fire keep my golden memories aglow
I don't see the face of my loved one when the love's a burning low
Throw another log on the fire bring back all the sweetest days I've known
When our hearts were young in the springtime and her love was mine alone
There's nothing left but the embers springtime seems so long ago
Throw another log on the fire keep my golden memories aglow
[ guitar ]
Well, this is it, that day is here
The day I knew would come when you would leave me dear
Well, here I sit, while teardrops fall
And wonder why I care when you don't care at all
But I'm a fool that way, from a way back when
A fool who'd take you back if you'd come back again
But this is it, you're gone, you're free
You'll find another love, but this is it for me
Well, this is it, that day is here
It's no surprise and yet, I can't hold back the tears
Well, here I sit and try to guess
How such an empty room, so full of loneliness
Well, even the clock has stopped
Somehow I guess it knew, that time's run out
For me, it's over, it's all through
Yes, this is it, you're gone, you're free
South from Okeechobee and reachin' to the keys lays the mighty wonder nature made
A hundred miles of jade the mighty everglades
It's beautiful at sunset but oh there's something else that makes bravest heart afraid
A word of things acrawling and athumping and abawling and awadin' in the Everglades
Creeping seeping I heard a million things a weeping
As I gazed into the weirdness of the mighty everglades
Over and over I called oh please come back my lover
But my love is dead or wand'ring in the fearful everglades
Voices calling shadows falling spirits of those who ventured in and stayed
Hear it fear it never never go too near it
For there's myst'ry in the hist'ry of the mighty everglades
Seeping crawling spirits calling sliddin' hidin' my love in the everglades
Over and over I call but now she's gone for ever
And my heart is wand'ring with her through the mighty everglades
A word of things acrawling and athumping and abawling and awadin' in the Everglades
You say it's over now but it's easy to see
You still belong to him you're not happy with me
You can hide all your feelings until he passes by
That's when I see the blues in your pretty brown eyes
Your pretty brown eyes keep telling me lies
But they can't hide the hurt with a smile of disguise
You can hide all your feelings until he passes by
That's when I see the blues in your pretty brown eyes
[ piano ]
In a vine-covered shack in the mountains
Bravely fighting the battle of Time
There's a dear one who's weathered life's sorrow
It's that silver haired Daddy of mine
If I could recall all the heartaches
Dear old Daddy, I've caused you to bear
If I could erase those lines from your face
And bring back the gold to your hair
If God would but grant me the power
Just to turn back the pages of Time
I'd give all I own if I could but atone
To that silver haired Daddy of mine.
I know it's too late, dear old Daddy
To repay for the heartaches and care
But dear Mother is waiting in Heaven
Just to comfort and solace you there
If I could recall all the heartaches
Dear old Daddy, I've caused you to bear
If I could erase those lines from your face
And bring back the gold to your hair
If God would but grant me the power
Just to turn back the pages of Time
I'd give all I own if I could but atone
You'll never know I cried when I found out you lied
For I've been hidin' all these teardrops in my heart
My eyes they're not reveal the way I really feel
Because I know I'll cry my heart out if I start
Though I'm pretending that I don't care to be with you my darling is my prayer
But way down deep inside I can't give up my pride
So I'll just keep on hidin' teardrops in my heart
That kiss you gave me this morning
Was just the calm before the storm
I know in my heart that you're leaving me
For someone else's own
The storm sometimes comes without warning
So I'm thankful that I was forewarned
It gives me a chance to speak to my heart
And to brace myself for the storm
The storm is coming I can feel it
And soon we'll be driven apart
You'll rush to the arms of your new love
Deserting a broken heart
If there was a way I could hold you
With words that are tender and warm
I'd rise and challenge the oncoming waves
And defend our love from the storm
I'd rise and challenge the oncoming waves
I'm only a stand in after all's said and done
I fought for your love I thought I have won
But I'm only a stand in for somebody else
What a dreamer I've been I'm just standing in
I wondered if you know dear that when you're in my arms
Sometimes the name you whisper isn't mine
I've tried not to believe it but in my heart I know
I've only been a stand in all the time
[ piano ]
I'm only a stand in after all's said and done
I fought for your love I thought I have won
But I'm only a stand in for somebody else
Stand at your window some night
Again let me see
The one who is holding
The best part of me
Stand at your window some night
Look at my side of town
Remember if you change your mind
You know where I'll be found
Each night I look up at your mansion
I can see the window where the light shines through
I wonder if you still remember
The one that you left for someone new
Stand at your window some night
Again let me see
The one who is holding
The best part of me
Stand at your window some night
Look at my side of town
Remember if you change your mind
You know where I'll be found
Each night as I wait here in the darkness
I watch your window so high above
I'm longin' for a look at my old sweetheart
Just a glimpse the one that I still love
Stand at your window some night
Again let me see
The one who is holding
The best part of me
Stand at your window some night
Look at my side of town
Remember if you change your mind
Hey-ey-ey snowflake
My pretty little snowflake
Ooh, ooh, the change in the weather
Has made it better for me.
Hey-ey-ey snowflake, my pretty little snowflake
You've got me warm as a fire
With the burning desire for you.
Snow was falling when love came calling
On this lonely heart of mine.
You were standing there with snow flaked in your hair.
You kept stalling while my thoughts were calling
On every way I knew
For one excuse to get acquainted with you
Then I said
Snow flake my pretty little snowflake
Ooh, ooh, the change in the weather
Has made it better for me.
Hey-ey-ey snowflake, my pretty little snowflake
You've got me warm as a fire
With the burning desire for you.
The ice was breaking and
Love was waking in a winter wonderland.
When I felt you slip your fingers in my hand.
Now snow is gleaming and
I'm not dreaming I know this is for real.
The love I have is too much to conceal.
Hey-ey-ey snowflake
My pretty little snowflake
Ooh, ooh, the change in the weather
has made it better for me.
Hey-ey-ey snowflake, my pretty little snowflake
You've got me warm as a fire
With the burning desire for you...
I'm temped my darling to steal you away
So help me, darling, stay out of my way
You know that I love you but I'm not the cheating kind
I'm faced with a heartache at love's cheating line
Don't let me cross over love's cheating line
You belong to another and you'll never be mine
I know one step closer, would be heaven divine
Don't let me cross over love's cheating line
I tried to forget 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
Don't let me cross over love's cheating line
You belong to another and you'll never be mine
I know one step closer would be heaven divine
hem.. hem..
the lights in the harbour.. (pom..pom..pom)
don't shine for me (pom..pom..pom..pom)
I'm like a lost ship.. (pom..pom..pom)
adrift on a sea..
ah-hah..
sea of a heartbreak..
lost love and loneliness..
memories of your caress..
so divine..
how i wish, you were mine again my dear..
i'm on a sea of tears..
sea of a heartbreak.. (sea of a heartbreak)
why did i lose you.. (pom..pom..pom)
oh where did i fail.. (pom..pom..pom..p
why did you leave me.. (pom..pom..pom)
always to sail.. (pom..pom..pom..pom)
this sea of a heartbreak..
lost love and loneliness..
memories of your caress..
so divine..
how i wish, you were mine again my dear..
i'm on a sea of tears..
sea of a heartbreak.. (sea of a heartbreak)
hem..
oh what i'd give to sail back to shore..
back to your arms once more..
hem..
come to my rescue.. (pom..pom..pom)
come here to me.. (pom..pom..pom..pom)
take me and lead me.. (pom..pom..pom)
away from the sea..
(Roses are red my love violets are blue)
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 violets are blue sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you
Is that your little girl she looks so much like you
Some day some boy will write in her book too
Roses are red my love violets are blue sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you
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
Aye, aye, aye, aye
My heart is in Rosa Rio under the Argentine skies
There with a beautiful lady with her dark and sparkling eyes
My heart is in Rosa Rio, your sentimentae, aye, aye
There with a beautiful lady that I'll love the day that I die
Aye, aye, aye, aye
Her parents were rich Estenaciaros and I was just one of the hands
Who herded their ten thousand cattle on their ten thousand acres of land
But I was a very poor cowboy and we lived in worlds far apart
So how could I tell her I loved her or speak of the love in my heart
The lady I loved never loved me, the lady I loved never knew
The day that she married another, a poor cowboy's heart broke in two
And I know that she'll never miss me or notice that I'm even gone
The cowboy who saddled her pony now rides through the dark night alone
My heart is in Rosa Rio under the Argentine skies
There with a beautiful lady with her dark and sparkling eyes
My heart is in Rosa Rio, your sentimentae, aye, aye
There with a beautiful lady that I'll love the day that I die
Poor little doll, you're too young for tears
I'm in love with you, honey, up to my ears
I know that you go for somebody else
But he's gonna drop you, he told me himself
Poor little doll, like sun is your smile
But there will be tears in just a short while
Don't let him hurt you and tear down your world
Oh, don't you wanna be my girl
Don't you want to move right into my heart
Don't give those blue tears a chance to start
A love true as mine should'nt be overlooked
I'll let the world see that you've got me hooked
No kissin' in corners like he wants to do
'Cause nobody hides a love that is true
To him you're a plaything, to me you're a pearl
Oh, don't you wanna be my girl
Don't you want to move right into my heart
Don't give those blue tears a chance to start
A love true as mine should'nt be overlooked
And I'll let the world see that you've got me hooked
No kissin' in corners like he wants to do
'Cause nobody hides a love that is true
To him you're a plaything, to me you're a pearl
So, don't you wanna be my girl
Please release me let me go
for I don't love you anymore
To waste our lives would be a sin
Release me and let me love again
I have found a new love dear
And I will always want her near
her lips are warm while yours are cold
Release me my darling let me go
for I don't love you anymore
So release me and let me love again
Please release me can't you see
you'd be A fool to cling to me
To live a life would bring us pain
Tige, you were faithful, faithful to the end
Tige, how I miss you, you were my best friend
Three years of army service done and I was headin' home at last
I got to thinking 'bout my dog and things long gone past
How old Tige pulled me from a creek when I had no pulse or breath
How he saved me from the changin' bull that gored my dad to death
As a kid I'd dream of bears and tremble to my toes
Till old Tige come up to my bed and nudge me with his nose
Then my fears would melt away and Tige would go lie down
I'd drift on back to sleep without another sound
The big bus stopped and I got off it was awful dark and thick with fog
Then something gently nuzzled me and there stood Tige, my dog
I wondered if my faithful dog had met the bus each day
And all the dreary winter nights since I'd been away
Have Tige meet me here like this I was I was really glad
'Cause I hadn't needed Tige so much since the day they've buried dad
Too long miles still lay ahead, but what I didn't know
A giant Dam was being built where the old road used to go
I think the Lord was sending Tige and I followed where he led
Knowing well without his help that I'd be good as dead
Tige inched along this way and that going rough and slow
And I could hear the water a lappin' at the ledges far below
Then through the mist, I saw a light and mother in her chair
And I reached down to pet old Tige, but he wasn't there
I'm thankful mom, you had old Tige these three lonely years
I owe my life to him, tonight I couldn't help my tears
You say you wrote me 'bout the Dam well God was sure with us
I didn't get your letter Mom but old Tige met the bus
I hate to tell you son she said but now you've got to know
When you left it broke his heart, Tige died three years ago
Mary, big brown eyes
Mary, ruby lips
I take a trip every evening
Journey down a memory lane
Strolling again those familiar paths
Dreaming those dreams again
I can always see my sweetheart
Dressed like she used to be
Waiting for someone by the garden gate
I know that someone is me
Big brown eyes, ruby lips
Can't you tell it's Mary?
Rosy cheeks, curly hair
Can't you tell it's my Mary
All times in the evenings
We'd go scrolling
Hand in hand together
Beneath the pepper trees
I can feel her hand in mine
As I sit alone tonight
Dreaming of the hours I've spent with my Mary
My cathedral has a ceiling of blue
My cathedral 'neath the sky
Where I may lift up my eyes unto the hills
And hear music from a stream rippling by
My cathedral has an alter of flowers
Their fragrant incense fills the air
In my cathedral, I am closer to him
Than I could be anywhere
For here I pray
In a place so grand
The carpet I kneel on
Was made by his own hand
My cathedral has candles lighted by the stars
And mighty pillars of trees
No other cathedral is so beautiful
South of the border, hey I know a lad
He's got more fun than anybody's had
Don't got no worry, don't got no dough
Everybody's wondering about Mexican Joe
In old Mexico they call him the Rhumba King
Leads all the women around on a string
When they go out they get a million thrills
But the lovely senoritas wind up with the bills
Dancin', romancin', always on the go
Sun shining down on Mexican Joe
He makes the night spots all along the bay
People want to see him when he comes their way
He spreads so much joy everywhere
He goes everyone shouts Viva la Mexican Joe
He likes to gamble at poker, he's an ace
He's always lucky with the cards at ever face
At winnin' the money, he is sure a whiz
But when they win they don't collect
'Cause they don't know where he is
Dancin', romancin', always on the go
Sun shining down on Mexican Joe
He don't got no income tax 'cause he don't got no dough
Still he gets along just fine how we'll never know
He's got everything he wants, a girl, a song
If we use his formula we surely can't go wrong
His favorite playground is anywhere there's girls
He's got that something that sets their hearts a whirl
It couldn't be his money 'cause he ain't got a peso
But when he wants a kiss all he's got to do is say so
Dancin', romancin', always on the go
Margie I'm always thinking of you Margie
I'll tell the world I love you don't forget your promise to me
I will buy you a home and ring and everything
For Margie you've been my inspiration days are never blue
After all is said and done there is really only one, oh Margie Margie it's you
(Margie I'm always thinking of you Margie
I'll tell the world I love you don't forget your promise to me
I will buy you a home and ring and everything...
[ guitar ]
Do you remember when you loved me
Before the world took me astray
If you do then forgive me
And make the world go away
(Make the world go away)
And get it off my shoulders
(Say the things you used to say)
Please make the world go away
(Make the world go away)
I'm sorry if I've hurt you
I'll make it up day by day
Just say you love me like you used to
And make the world go away
(Make the world go away)
And get it off my shoulders
(Say the things you used to say)
If you ever change your mind
And you find that you still care
It won't be to hard to find me
Look behind you I'll be there.
When your bright light starts to dim
And your thought return to me
If you're really through with him, dear
Look behind you there I'll be.
Like a story with no ending
Like a song that's never through
There's no use in my pretending
I'm lost without you.
If you ever change your mind
And you find that you still care
It won't be too hard to find me
Look behind you I'll be there.
--- Instrumental ---
Like a story with no ending
Like a song that's never through
There's no use in my pretending
I'm lost without you.
If you ever change your mind
And you find that you still care
It won't be too hard to find me
Look behind you I'll be there...
When a record starts to spinnin' and love words make a song
I think of a million sweethearts but only one I could own
Today your life is music and famous they say you'll be
Darling sometimes write a lonesome waltz for me
Put in some pretty love words as fresh as the summer rain
I'll furnish many teardrops and pretend you're mine again
And if some day you'll find you're just a used to be
Please come back and dance this lonesome waltz for me
[ piano ]
When a story's told and music for millions to hear its cry
There's always someone lonesome who'll hang their head and cry
A waltz's so soft and touching a love's so cold and lost
There's a village hidden deep in the valley among the pine trees half forlorn
And there on a sunny morning little Jimmy Brown was born
All the chapel bells were ringing in the little valley town
And the songs that they were singing was for baby Jimmy Brown
And the little congregation prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation bless this hour of meditation guide him with eternal love
There's a village hidden deep in the valley beneath the mountains high above
And there twenty years thereafter Jimmy was to meet his love
All the chapel bells were ringing twas a great day in his life
For the songs that they were singing was for Jimmy and his wife
And the little congregation prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation bless oh Lord this celebration
May their lives be filled with love
From the village hidden deep in the valley one rainy morning dark and grey
A soul which wait in the heaven Jimmy Brown had passed away
Just the lonely bell was ringing in the little valley town
Twas there well it was singing to our good old Jommy Brown
And the little congregation prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation may his soul find this salvation of Thy great eternal love
[A] LettER To My Heart
Jim Reeves
VERSE 1
Dear Heart,
There is something I must tell you
Something sad and so hard for me to say
For I know how much you always loved her
And how you always hoped that she'd come back someday
VERSE 2
But day after day, my hopes grow dimmer
As I watch Life and love passing me by
And the life I live is empty and so lonely
But you just live for her, and slowly let me die
CHORUS
You know she left me for another
So ... give her up, let her go -- let it be
Dear heart, if you won't stop beating for her
Then dear heart, stop beating for me
[ piano ]
CHORUS
You know she left me for another
So ... give her up, let her go -- let it be
Dear heart, if you won't stop beating for her
Then dear heart, stop beating for me
Just because the moon is bright's
No sign he's watchin' us tonight
Let me hold your hand
Maybe love you just a little
The moon just went behind a cloud
And I won't whisper very loud
Let me whisper in your ear
Maybe love you just a little
Some folks talk agin' romance
And say we shouldn't do it
Don't ya pay no 'tention to what they say
You know there ain't nothin' to it.
Love's what makes the world go 'round
And you're the roundest thing I've found
Let me hold your hand
Maybe love you just a little
If I see you tomorrow on some street in town
Pardon me if I don't say hello
I belong to another, it wouldn't look so good
To know someone I'm not suppose to know
Just walk on by, wait on the corner
I love you but we're strangers when we meet.
In a dimly lit corner, at a place outside of town.
Tonight we'll try to say goodbye again.
But I know it's not over, I'll call tomorrow night
I can't let you go so why pretend.
Just walk on by, wait on the corner
I love you but we're strangers when we meet.
On a mountain stands a mansion so fine and it looks down on this cabin of mine
I had a love and I loved her true but along came a rich man and loved her to
Now on a mountain in a mansion stands my love
Well he promised he'd buy her diamond rings yes he promised fancy dresses and things
He promised everything indeed but it can't buy the love that her poor heart needs
On a mountain in a mansion so fine
[ guitar ]
Now I know that she's not happy there and I know that she's got thing to bare
My only dream is that someday she'll come right back here and stay
In the cabin in the valley with me
On a mountain in a mansion so fine...
Yeah, I'm gonna change everything that holds a mem'ry of you, oh yeah
I'm gonna start with the wall stick the pictures off the wall and burn 'em
Move the chairs around take the window curtains down and burn 'em
Everything I see reminds me, you were here
Yeah, I'm gonna change everything that holds a mem'ry of you, oh yeah
The candle of your set you gave me on the night of my birthday
The records that you bought the hi-fi we loved to play
The decorating man will come and rearrange them
Yeah, I'm gonna change everything that holds a mem'ry of you, oh yeah
Take the carpet off the floor throw it out the door it's filled with tears
Everything I find that bring you to my mind must disappear
Every night I dream, I'll dream of someone new
Yeah, I'm gonna change everything that holds a mem'ry of you
Yeah, I'm gonna change everything that holds a mem'ry of you, oh yeah
I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold
I'd rather be His than have riches untold
I'd rather have Jesus than houses or land
I'd rather be led by His nail pierced hands
Than to be the king of a vast domain
And beheld in sins dread sway
I'd rather have Jesus
Than anything this world affords today
I'd rather have Jesus than worldly applause
I'd rather be faithful to His dear cause
I'd rather have Jesus than world wide things
Yes, I'd rather be true to His holy name
Than to be the king of a vast domain
And beheld in sins dread sway
I'd rather have Jesus
I'd like to be the picture on your mantel I'd like to be the window in your door
I'd like to be the feather on your pillow I'd even like to be the carpet on your floor
I'd like to be the star outside your window that lucky chair that holds you every night
The coffe pot you warm up every morning I'd even like to be the apple that you bite
And if you need someone to talk with I'd like to be the little voice inside
And if you'll ever have a heartache I wanna be the tear you hide
I'd like to the be the record on your phonograph the melody that haunts you night and day
And when you're old enough to want to marry
I'd like to be the one who steals your heart away
[ guitar ]
I was just walkin' out the door it's too bad you didn't come before
I waited so long so long so long now there's no time to wait anymore
How I cried for you day and night and for the letters that you didn't write
But now it's alright alright alright you won't have to write anymore
Not so long ago you will never know what this day to me could have been
But it's all changed now darling anyhow it was nice to see you again
Well it's almost a quarter to four sorry I can't stay anymore
Must be on my way this is my wedding day and I was just walkin' out the door
I fall to pieces
Each time I see you again
I fall to pieces
How can I be just your friend
You want me to act like we?ve never kissed
You want me to forget, pretend we?ve never met
And I?ve tried and I?ve tried but I haven?t yet
You walk by and I fall to pieces
I fall to pieces
Each time someone speaks your name
I fall to pieces
Time only adds to the flame
You tell me to find someone else to love
Someone who?ll love me, too, the way you used to do
But each time I go out with someone new
You walk by and I fall to pieces
It doesn't matter one way or another I say but I'm lying I catch myself crying
There are fools of this one but it's over and done
And I'm trying but I catch myself crying
I catch myself wondering if you'll find somebody new
I catch myself wondering if you're wondering if I'll find somebody too
It doesn't matter one way or another I say but I'm lying I catch myself crying
HOW CAN I WRITE ON PAPER.
1. With pen in hand I tried to write this note to you / I know not (don't know ) where I stand, what I'm I to do / I found so many things to say, since we're so far apart / How can I write on paper what I feel in my heart.
CHORUS: How can I write on paper what I'm feeling deep inside / words to you would last no longer than it takes the ink to dry / A love as sweet as yours and mine deserves another start / How can I write on paper what I feel in my heart.
2. Those simple things you gave are worth the world to me / But riches been unclaimed you can take or leave / So many things were left unsaid I don't know where to start / How can I write on paper what I feel in my heart
ACROSS THE BRIDGE
1. I have lived a life of sin / in this world I'm living in / I have done forbidden things I shouldn't do / I asked a beggar along the way If he could tell me where to stay / where I could find real happiness and love that's true.
CHORUS: Across the bridge there's no more sorrow / Across the Bridge there's no more pain / The sun will shine / across the river and you'll never be unhappy again.
2. Follow the footsteps of the King / to hear the voices ring / they'll be singing out the Glory of the Land / The River Jordan will be there / the sound of trumphets you will hear / and you'll behold the most precious place ever known to man.
I listened to an old friend describe the girl he'd met
In memory I could see her, heartbreak in silhouette
He said, "Her hair was golden, her eyes were violet"
It surely had to be her, heartbreak in silhouette
He said that when he kissed her, her kisses were like wine
And suddenly I wondered if she'd break his heart like mine
But I sat there in silence and smoked my cigarette
His heart would soon discover heartbreak in silhouette
With shining eyes he told me about the night they'd met
My own heart kept remembering heartbreak in silhouette
Outside the rain kept falling, recalling old regrets
Then she stood in the doorway, heartbreak in silhouette
At first she didn't see us because the lights were dim
As she chatted with her new love, she had eyes for only him
My friend sat that there in silence and not one word was said
Two broken hearts were sharing heartbreak in silhouette
I'm just gettin' back from Juarez Mexico
And I'll tell you something I want you to know
My poor head is aching it throbs and it twirls
From drinking tequila and teasing the girls
Don't get me wrong because I'm not complaining
I have no regrets I am only explaining
For all of you fellows that ain't had the thrill
A drinking tequila and teasing the girls
Heeee ha happy tonight the maidens are dancing out in the moonlight
Heee ha on top of the world drinking tequila and teasing the girls
Moonlight and flowers make night so appealing
The breete from the garden comes tenderly stealing
A beautiful maiden then whispers your name
And suddenly both of your hearts are aflame
Her dark eyes are gleamin' her raven hair shining
You pull her up closer your hearts are entwinning
Her warm lips are thrilling you're out of this world
From drinking tequila and teasing the girls
If down in Juarez you should happen to be
The Cafe El Gusto's the place you should see
They claim that they have and I know it's so the prettiest dancers in old Mexico
When Spanish maidens start squirmin' and dancin'
It's sure to set any young heart to romancin'
Your troubles get lighter your worries unfurl
While drinking tequila and teasing the girls
Your five year old face
Is a dirty disgrace
But you love me, daddy.
You scatter your toys
And you make to much noise
But you love me, daddy.
You know little lad
You can be pretty bad
But you love me, daddy.
You wake me at dawn
When I want to sleep on
But you love me, daddy.
Now you eat the cookies
When I tell you, no
But you love me, daddy
'Cause you tell me so.
Your so hard to scold
'Cause your my five year old
Because you love me, daddy.
--- Instrumental ---
When I dress you up
You go play with the pup
But you love me, daddy.
When I use the phone
You won't leave me alone
But you love me, daddy.
You make sister wail
Pulling her pony tail
But you love me, daddy.
You scratch up the floor
And you write on the door
But you love me, daddy.
you ask foolish question
Now, you know that true
But you love me, daddy
Now you know that you do.
Your so hard to scold
'Cause you're my five year old
Breeze, you took her from my side
She was my blushing bride
Oh, hear my plea, hear my plea
Hear me begging you upon my knees
Bring her back sweet evening breeze
Bring my baby back to me
It's an ill wind that blows nobody good
Blows nobody good they say
It's an ill wind that blows nobody good
That blow my gal away
Breeze, you took my gal away
I've had the blues all day
Since early dawn, early dawn
You come a whisperin' through the trees
Little breeze
When I woke up this morning she was gone, she was gone
Breeze, you took her from my side
She was my blushing bride
Oh, hear my plea, hear my plea
Hear me begging you upon my knees
Bring her back sweet evening breeze
Bring my baby back to me
Hear me begging you upon my knees
Bring her back sweet evening breeze
There's a blizzard comin' on how I'm wishin' I was home
For my pony's lame and he can't hardly stand
Listen to that norther sigh if we don't get home we'll die
But it's only seven miles to Mary Anne
It's only seven miles to Mary Anne
You can bet we're on her mind for it's nearly suppertime
And I'll bet there's hot biscuits in the pan
Lord, my hands feel like they're froze and there's a numbness in my toes
But, it's only five more miles to Mary Anne
It's only five more miles to Mary Anne
That wind's howlin' and it seems mighty like a woman's screams
And we'd best be movin' faster if we can
Dan just think about that barn with that hay so soft and warm
For it's only three more miles to Mary Anne
It's only three more miles to Mary Anne
Dan get up you ornery cuss or you'll be the death of us
I'm so weary but I'll help you if I can
All right Dan perhaps it's best that we stop awhile and rest
For it's still a hundred yards to Mary Anne
It's still a hundred yeards to Mary Anne
Late that night the storm was gone and they found him there at dawn
He'd a made it but he couldn't leave ol' Dan
Yes, they found him there on the plains his hands frozed to the reins
He was just a hundred yards from Mary Anne
Beatin' on the ding dong all day long
I go around just singing this song
I got a gal, maybe two or three
Beatin' on the ding dong don't bother me.
Most folks worry when they have no dough
Which can't feel good 'cause of feeling low
I don't worry if I'm broke no more
I ain't rich so I must be poor.
Beatin' on the ding dong don't mean a thing
Just some words that you can sing
Makes no difference if they're right or wrong
Beating on the ding dong all day long.
--- Instrumental ---
Some are happy when they have big cars
To ride around and they puff cigars
Give me a rattle trap model T
I'm as happy as a kid could be.
A house and a flea and a bunch of mice
Out in the barnyard shootin' dice
The house grows cold and steps on a flea
The flea yells fellas there's a house on me.
Beating on the ding dong all day long
I go around just singing this song
I got a gal, maybe two or three
Beatin' on the ding dong don't bother me.
--- Instrumental ---
I stood with my gal on the porch last night
A huggin' and a kissin' till it got daylight
Her pa said get him and I had to stand
A bull dog had me by the seat of the pants.
I don't have nothin' to bother me
As happy as a possum in a lemon tree
If I had a wife that 'd work at all
I wouldn't have work this coming fall.
Beating on the ding dong all day long
I go around just singing this song
I got a gal, maybe two or three
Beatin' on the ding dong don't bother me.
Beatin' on the ding dong don't bother me...
There's an old Christmas card in an old dusty trunk
And it brings back sweet memories dear to me
'Though it's faded and worn, it's as precious as the morn
When I found it 'neath our first Christmas tree
I thrill with every word, every line
Guess I'm always sentimental 'round this time
Pardon me if a tear falls among my Christmas cheer
It's the memory of an old Christmas card
You know, I don't know why I get to feeling sentimental
About this time, every year
But every time I see a Christmas card
I somehow can't help reminiscing
About the very first Christmas that you and I spent together
What a beautiful Christmas card you gave me that year
Why I know you must have looked through thousands of cards
To find that wonderful poem that still brings a tear to my eyes
I thrill with every word, every line
Guess I'm always sentimental 'round this time
Pardon me if a tear falls among my Christmas cheer
If I have wounded any soul today
If I have caused ones foot to go astray
If I have walked in my own willful way
Dear Lord, forgive
Forgive the sins I have confessed to Thee
Forgive my secret sins I do not see
O guide me, love me and my keeper be
A star fell from Heaven
Right into my arms
A brighter star I know I've never seen
Then I found out that it was
Only you with all your charms
Who came into my life to fill a dream.
A fallen star, that's what you are
That twinkle in your eye came from the sky
You must have strayed from the Milky Way
A fallen star, that's what you are.
--- Instrumental ---
A fallen star, that's what you are
That twinkle in your eye came from the sky
You must have strayed from the Milky Way
In all this big wide happy world you're the sweetest thing
It's you who makes the flowers bloom the happy robins sing
I'm so happy when you're near me so blue when you're away
When I see your sunny smile my night time turns to day
You've turned the gray skies into blue taught this happy heart to sing
And I love you very very much cause you're the sweetest thing
In all this world I've never seen a sweeter thing than you
There's a bit of God's own heaven in every thing you do
My darling how I'd miss you if God took you away
But if he should I know that you'd still be in my heart to stay
You've turned the gray skies into blue taught this happy heart to sing
I just burned the picture that you gave me
I burned all your love letters, too
I know that won't tear you from my memory
But tell me what else I can do?
I gave away the things that remind me
I hardly ever mention your name
Our friends never see you beside me
But I know you're there just the same
Most of the time you'd think I'm happy
Most of the time there's someone new
But most of the time I feel like cryin'
And most of the time that's what I do
Most of the time you'd think I'm happy
Most of the time there's someone new
But most of the time I feel like cryin'
Moonlight and roses
Bring wonderful memories of you
My heart reposes
In beautiful thoughts, so true
June light discloses
Love's golden dreams sparkling anew
Moonlight and roses
Bring memories of you
June light discloses
Love's golden dreams sparkling anew
Moonlight and roses
I have filled up my pockets with money
Big trophies I've hung on my wall
My mansion sits high on a hilltop
And the world is impressed by it all
But to me all this glory is worthless
And I've not been successful enough
For while I was winning the whole wide world
I was losing your love
I forgot to kiss you and hold to your charms
Success seems like nothing to these empty arms
All this time I've been gaining a treasure
That I can't even speak hardly of
For while I was winning the whole wide world
Thought I'd stop by awhile and see you
Just once more before I leave town
But his car's parked there in your driveway
And I see the curtain's pulled down
I won't bother to ring your doorbell
I'm not sure just how much I can bear
I might do something I'd be sorry for later
So I won't come in while he's there
Does he know my whole world is in there with him
That he's king while he sits there in my chair
I'd like to tell you just how much I still love you
But I won't come in while he's there
I love you because you understand, dear
Every single thing I try to do
You're always there to lend a helping hand, dear
I love you most of all because you're you
No matter what the world may say about me
I know your love will always see me through
I love you for the way you never doubt me
But most of all I love you 'cause you're you
I love you because my heart is lighter
Everytime I'm walking by your side
I love you because the future's brighter
The door to happiness you opened wide
No matter what the world may say about me
I know your love will always see me through
I love you for a hundred thousand reasons
I heard the pitter-patter
Of a slow winter rain
I heard the lonesome whistle
Of a far away train
As I sat in the silence
Broken only by a train
I heard a heartbreak last night
Oh, how you cried when we said goodbye
As we stood at the station in the rain
A whisper was saying from a pine tree close by
When we heard the whistle of your train
I heard the moans of sobbing of the wind in the pine
I felt the cold icy fingers of fear from the spine
For I knew in my heart, you'd never be mine
And I heard a heartbreak last night
For I knew in my heart, you'd never be mine
One dark stormy night not a star was in sight
The north wind came howlin' down the line
There stood a brave engineer with his sweetheart so dear
His orders to pull old No 9
She kissed him goodbye with a tear in her eye
But the joy in his heart he couldn't hide
The whole world seemed bright for she told him that night
That tomorrow she'd be his blushing bride
The wheels hummed a song as the train rolled along
The black smoke came a pouring from the stack
The headlight agleam seemed to brighten his dream
Of tomorrow when he'd be coming back
He sped 'round the hill and his brave heart stood still
Headlight was shining in his face
He whispered a prayer as he threw on the air
For he knew this would be his final race
[ guitar ]
In the wreck he was found lying there on the ground
He asked them to raise his weary head
His breath slowly went at this message he sent
To the maiden who thought she would be wed
There's a little white home that I built for our own
Where I dreamed we'd be happy you and I
But I leave it to you for I know you'll be true
Can this be the wind-up
You don't seem the same
Can this be the wind-up
Have I been to blame
Have you made your mind up
My heart wants to know
Can this be the wind-up
When I love you so?
How my heart would cry
If we said goodbye
Don't you know how much
I'll always love you
Won't you think it over
Let your heart count again
And mayby we'll end up
Being sweethearts again.
Instrumental
How my heart would cry
If we said goodbye
Don't you know how much
I'll always love you
Won't you think it over
Let your heart count again
And mayby we'll end up
Being sweethearts again.
(Spoken)
Sort of a pretty love song there.
I'm walking on the air, dear
For life is fair, dear, to lovers
I'm in the seventh heaven
There's more than seven my heart discovers
In this sweet, improbable and unreal world
Finding you has given me my ideal world
Why do I love you? Why do you love me?
Why should there be two happy as we?
Can you see the why or wherefore?
I should be the one you care for
You're a lucky boy, I am lucky too
All our dreams of joy seem to come true
Maybe that's because you love me
Whispering willow standing alone
Holding a secret that shall never be known
Dreams of the future, plans for a home
I stand 'neath your branches with no love of my own.
Your branches are weeping, I think I know why
A lover's sad story has caused you to cry
If I told our secret then our tears would dry
For the lover who's lonely, dear willow is I.
--- Instrumental ---
Is it dear willow, for winter is neigh
Your branches are weeping like a bird that can't fly
Or is it my story that caused you to cry
Where do I go from here?
What fate is drawing near?
Touch my heart
And guide my lips in prayer.
Through the grace of God alone
I'll cast aside these fears I've known
And lift myself from
The depths of deep dispair.
Lead me through the darkness
And through each gloomy day.
Take my hand, oh, precious Lord
And help me on my way.
Give me strength that I might find
Abiding faith and peace of mind
And I won't ask
Where do I go from here?
Please, Lead me through the darkness
And through each gloomy day.
Take my hand, oh, precious Lord
And help me on my way.
Give me strength that I might find
Abiding faith and peace of mind
And I won't ask
I lost the sunshine and roses I lost the heavens of blue
I lost the beautiful rainbow I lost the morning dew
I lost the angel who gave me summer the whole winter through
I lost the gladness that turned into sadness when I lost you
[ violin ]
I lost the sweet thing who gave me summer the whole winter through
Two shadows on your window they make me realize
Darling that you don't want me guess you've been telling me lies
I know that I have lost you you don't belong to me
Two shadows on your window it's plain for this fool to see
I have no love at all no peace of mind I came around to call what do I find
Two shadows on your window cuddled in one embrace
Two shadows on your window one of them is taking my place
It was a stylish congregation, you could see they'd been around
And they had the biggest pipe organ of any church in town
But over in the Amen Corner of that church sat Brother Ayer
And he insisted every Sunday on singing in the choir
His voice was cracked, and broken age had touched his vocal chords
And nearly every Sunday he'd get behind and miss the words
Well, the choir got so flustered, the church was told in fine
That Brother Ayer must stop his singing or the choir was going to resign
So the pastor appointed a committee, I think it was three or four
And they got in their big fine cars and drove up to Ayer's door
They find the choir's great trouble sittin' there in an old arm chair
And the summer's golden sunbeams lay upon his snow white hair
Said, "York, we're here dear Brother with the vestries approbation
To discuss a little matter that affects the congregation
Now, it seems that your voice has interfered with the choir
So, if you'll just lay out, are you listening Brother Ayer?"
The old man raised his head a sign that he had hear
And on his cheek the three men caught the glitter of a tear
His feeble hands pushed back the locks as white as silky snow
And he answered the committee in a voice both soft and low
"I wonder if beyond the tide that's breaking at my feet
In that far off heavenly temple where my Master and I shall meet
Yes, I wonder if, when I try to sing the song of God up higher
I wonder if they'll kick me out of there for singing in heaven's choir
A silence filled the little room and the old man bowed his head
The committee went on back to town but Brother Ayer was dead
The choir missed him for awhile but he was soon forgotten
A few church goers watched the door but the old man entered not
Far away his voice is sweet and he sings his heart desire
Where are there no church committees and no fashionable choirs
(Too many parties and too many pals may break your heart someday
Too many boyfriends and sociable gals may drive your sweetheart away)
Gentlemen of the jury the judge's speech began
The scene was a crowded courtroom and the judge a stern old man
This prisoner here before you is a social enemy
A lady of the evening and you know the penalty
Her eyes reflect the nightlife her cheeks are red with paint
But I knew her mother gentlemen why her mother was a saint
Now I know that she's not like her and yet she might have been
If it hadn't been for pettin' parties cigarettes gin
We took the night life off the streets and brought it in our own homes
While girls beguiled with lipstick danced to saxophones
We opened up the underworld to the ones we loved so well
So tell me gentlemen is it right to send her to a cell
If she drinks well you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how
So gentlemen do you think it's right to condemn her now
And when you're in that juryroom just remember there and then
That for every fallen woman there's a hundred fallen men
And before you render a verdict on what this girl has done
Just remember there's a man to blame and that man might be your son
Now gentlemen that's my story my testimony stands
This girl is my own daughter and the case is in your hands
I wanted the gold and I sought it,I scrabbled and mucked like a slave,was it famine or scurvy?I fought it;I hurled my youth into a grave.I wanted the gold and I got it; came out with a fortune last fall.
yet somehow life's not what I thought it, and somehow the gold isn't all; no.
There's the land,have you seen it? It's the cussidest land I know,
from the big dizzy mountains that screen it to the deep death like valleys below.
Some say God was tired when he made it, some say it's a fine land to shun;maybe,
but there are some who would trade it for no land on Earth, and I'm one.
You come to get rich, that's a good reason. You feel like an excile at first, you hate it like Hell for a season and then you're worse than the worst.
It grips you like some kind of sinning, it twists you from foe to a friend.
It seems it's been since the Beginning, it seems it will be till the end.
I've stood in some mighty mouthed hollow thats plum full of hush to the brim.
I've watched the big husky sun wallow in crimson and gold and grow dim.
Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming and the stars tumbled out neck and crop; and I thought I surely was dreaming with the peace of the World piled on top.
The summer, no sweeter was ever, the sunshining woods all a thrill, the grailing aleap in the river, the bighorn asleep on the hill.
The strong life that never knows harness, the wilds where the caribou call,the freshness, the freedom,the farness.Oh God how I'm stuck on it all!
The winter, the brightness that blinds you,the white land locked tight as a drum; the cold fear that follows and finds you, the silence that bludgions you dumb.
The snows that are older than history, the woods where the wierd shadows slant,the stillness, the moonlight, the mystery.I've bade them goodbye, but I can't.
There's a land where the mountains are nameless and the rivers all run God knows where.
There are lives that are airing and aimless and deaths that just hang by a hair.
There are hardships that nobody reckons,there are valleys unpeopled and still.
There's a land, oh how it beckons and beckons.And I want to go back and I will.They're making my money diminish; I'm sick of the taste of champagne
Thank God when I'm skinned to a finish ,I'll pike to the Yukon again.I'll fight; and you bet it's no sham fight, it's Hell but I've been there before and it's better than this by a great sight.
So me for the Yukon once more. There's gold and it's haunting and taunting.
It's luring me on as a goal.
Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting so much as just finding the gold.
I'm traveling the highway to nowhere cause I can't find
the road to your heart
This old road is so rough and so rocky I get lost on the
highway to your heart
This highway to nowhere keeps calling your heart's at the
end of the line
But I always get lost on a detour I guess I don't
understand the signs
[ steel - fiddle ]
I've travelled this highway so long now but I know I'm no
closer to your heart
Down this long lonesome road I'll keep traveling
Though I know I've been lost from the start
This highway to nowhere I'll follow the road's dark but I
keep trudging on
And tomorrow I'll be back where I started it's the
I know a boy who knows a girl and she is so in love
She wants him for he's all the things that she's been dreamin' of
She wants to share a kiss with him but he's too shy to dare
For he's just four and she's just three and that's a sad affair
Everytime she looks at him with eyes so big and blue
He always looks the other way and she don't know what to do
For he is such a perfect doll with blond and curly hair
But he's just four and she's just three and that's a sad affair
Soda pop and bubble gum she brings him by the score
Lots of candy kisses too he couldn't ask for more
But he's a rough-tough cowboy and for girls he just don't care
For he's just four and she's just three and that's a sad affair
[ steel ]
She always follows him around next door and back again
If she can't be his lady fair she'll be his indienne
Cause she just wants to be with him no matter when or where
For he's her great big hero and that's a sad affair
She's given up her paper dolls and now she totes a gun
Cause that's the way he likes to play so she pretends it's fun
For him she'd do most anything but he's so unaware
For he's just four and she's just three and that's a sad affair
When the rain comes pourin' down and they must be apart
It doesn't bother him at all but it almost breaks her heart
She's just content to tag along and hopes someday he'll care
Well hello Sam now how you been guess it's a while since I've been in
Before she left you know we came here a lot
Oh but without her here it's not the same pour just one and keep the change
Tonight I'm having teardrops on the rocks
Well I remember when she sat right there I can close my eyes and see
Those soft lights shining in her hair and she's saying she loves me
Although I know it's just pretend and I can't turn back the clock
I'm keeping memories alive with teardrops on the rocks teardrops on the rocks
I had to come back just once again cause Sam you used to be our friend
Now let me talk of things that used to be
Say here's a dime go play our song just one more time and I'll be gone
Tonight it's teardrops on the rocks for me
Yes I remember when she sat right there...
Every little star above knows the one I love
Sweet Sue, just you
And the moon up high knows the reason why
Sweet Sue, it's you
No one else, it seems ever shares my dreams
And without you, dear, I don't know what I'd do
In this heart of mine you live all the time
Sweet Sue, just you
(Every star above knows the one I love)
It's you, sweet Sue
(And the moon up high knows the reason why)
It's you, sweet Sue
Nobody else it seems ever shares my dreams
And without you, dear, I don't know what I'd do
In this heart of mine you live all the time
(Sang)
Many years ago in days of childhood
I used to play till evenin' shadows come
Then windin' down that old familiar pathway
I'd hear my mother call at set of sun.
Come home, come home it's suppertime
The shadows lengthen fast
Come home, come home it's suppertime
We're going home at last.
(Spoken)
Some of the fondest memories of my childhood
Were woven around suppertime
When my mother used to call
From the backsteps of the old homeplace
Come on home now son it's suppertime.
Ahhhh, but I'd loved to hear that once more
But you know for me time has woven the realization of
The truth that's even more thrilling and that's when
The call come up from the portals of glory
To come home for it's suppertime.
When all Gods children shall gather around the table
of the Lord, Himself and the greatest suppertime of
them all.
(Sang)
Come home, come home it's suppertime
The shadows lengthen fast
Come home, come home it's suppertime
I'm going to strike it rich
I'm going to get my lucky break
And play a game of give and take
I'm going to strike it rich.
I'm gonna make a pile of money
To spend on my honey
I feel so good it's kind of funny
I've got that lucky itch.
I'm going to strike it rich.
I'll get a good new cablegram
And live as care free as the king of Siam
I'm much to lucky to get stranded
I'm going to win out single handed
I'm going to strike it rich, so very rich I am.
We're going to strike it rich
We're going to get our lucky break
And play a game of give and take
We're going to strike it rich.
We're gonna make a pile of money
Life sweeter than honey
We feel so good it's kind of funny
We've got that lucky itch.
We're going to strike it rich.
We'll get a good new cablegram
And live as care free as the king of Siam
Today the sun is shinging brighter
Today our hearts are feeling lighter
We're going to strike it rich, oh yes, so very rich.
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo as I walked out in Laredo one day
I saw a young cowboy all dressed in white linen
Dressed in white linen as cold as the clay
So beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly
Play the dead march as you carry me along
Take me to the green valley they'll lay the sod o'er me
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong
Once in a saddle I used to go dashing once in a saddle I used to go gay
First to the courthouse and lay down the roses
But I'm shot in the breast and I'm dyin' today
Bring sixteen tall cowboys to carry my casket ten pretty women to sing me a song
Take me to the green valley they'll lay the sod o'er me
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong
Somewhere along the line I lost my love for you
I can't explain just why I feel the way I do
I only want to know what made my love grow cold
What made me change my mind somewhere along the line
The happiness I've known no longer lives with me
I hold a passion for the yearning to be free
Whatever caused the change has left this mark so strange
My eyes for love went blind somewhere along the line
Well, it might have been the night you tossed your wedding rings away
And it could have been the many little things I meant to say
A mystery I know I can't define
For I lost my love for you somewhere along the line
Now we'd like to settle things down just a bit
And sing one of favourite sacred songs
Tonight I've chosen one that's long been a favourite of
mine
And I hope it's one of your favourites
Softly and Tenderly
Softly and tenderly
Jesus is calling
Calling for you and for me
See on the portal
He's watching and waiting
Waitin' for you and for me
Come home...
Come ho-ome
He who are wary
Come ho-ome
Ernestly, tenderly
Jesus is calling
Calling, oh sinner
Come home
Come home...
Come ho-ome
He who are wary
Come ho-o-ome
Ernestly, tenderly
Jesus is calling
Calling, oh sinner
Snowflake
Snowflake
Snowflake
Hey, hey, hey, snowflake
My pretty little snowflake
Ooh, ooh, the change in the weather
Has made it better for me
Hey, hey, hey, snowflake
My pretty little snowflake
You've got me warm as a fire
With the burning desire for you
Snow was falling when love came calling
On this lonely heart of mine
You were standing there with snow flakes in your hair
You kept stalling while my thoughts were calling
On every way I knew
For one excuse to get acquainted with you
Then I said snow flake
My pretty little snowflake
Ooh, ooh, the change in the weather
Has made it better for me
Hey, hey, hey, snowflake
My pretty little snowflake
You've got me warm as a fire
With the burning desire for you
The ice was breaking and
Love was waking in a winter wonderland
When I felt you slip your fingers in my hand
Now snow is gleaming and I'm not dreaming
I know this is for real
The love I have is too much to conceal
Hey, hey, hey, snowflake
My pretty little snowflake
Ooh, ooh, the change in the weather
Has made it better for me
Hey, hey, hey, snowflake
My pretty little snowflake
You've got me warm as a fire
With the burning desire for you
Snowflake
Snowflake
Snowflake
I discovered the valley of the shifting, whispering sands
While prospecting for gold in one of our western states
I saw the silent windmills, the crumbling water tanks
The bones of cattle and burrows, picked clean by buzzards
Bleached by the desert sun
I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands
And stopping to rest, I heard a tinkling, whispering sound
And suddenly realized that even though the wind was quiet
The sand did not lie still
I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery
So heavy and oppressive, I could scarcely breathe
For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley
Seeking answers to the many questions
That raced through my fevered mind
Where was everyone? Why the white bones, the dry wells?
The barren valley where people must have lived and died
Finally, I could go no farther, my food and water gone
I sat down and buried my face in my hands
And resting thus, I learnt the secret of the shifting, whispering sands
How I escaped from the valley, I do not know
But now to pay my final debt for being spared
I must tell you what I learned out there on the desert
So many years ago
When the day is oddly quiet
And the breeze seems not to blow
One would think the sand was resting
But you'll find, this is not so
It is whispering, softly whispering
As it slowly moves along
And for those who stop and listen
It will sing this mournful song
Of sidewinders and the horn toads
Of the thorny chaparral
In the sunny days and moonlight nights
The coyote's lonely yell
How the stars seem you could touch them
As you lay and gaze on high
At the heavens where we're hoping
I guess I'm crazy for loving you
You tell me many ways that I won't do
My heart keeps sayin' that I'm a fool
I don't dare let you go, it's unfair this I know
I don't care if it's so, it has to be
My heart keeps sayin' that I'm a fool
I guess I'm crazy for loving you
I guess I'm crazy for loving you
I don't dare let you go, it's unfair this I know
I don't care if it's so, it has to be
My heart keeps sayin' that I'm a fool
Seven days can be a long
Long time my friend
When you dream about the cold black chair
With straps for both your hands
If you wonder what it's like
To know your life will soon be gone
Your thoughts are mostly 'bout the things
You wish you'd never done
Your face is there in the darkest night
So clear upon my wall
Yet soon I know I'm to face
The darkest night of all
For on my head they'll place
The thing that brings eternal peace
Then death will be the way
To make this ache inside me cease
A stolen kiss, a warm embrace
A secret rendezvous
They didn't seem so wrong
That night when first I met you
Then there he was, insane with rage
To see you held so tight
I didn't mean to kill him
When we had that awful fight
Seven days I've sat here
Thinking 'bout our sin
Seven days to realize
The trouble that I'm in
Seven days to weigh the price
The man will make me pay
Seven days to think 'bout
The night you ran away
Then you were gone and he lay dead
A smile upon his lips
He knew this was the last time
You'd give him the slip
Knew too, the price for stolen love
Was just too much to pay
Perhaps I too can smile like him
When my life ebbs away
He's coming out to lead me on
To that little cell-like room
I fancy your face is smiling
As we walk through the gloom
Perhaps you've found another
Who wants a rendezvous
But I'll, I'll bet he can't imagine
The price of loving you
Seven days I've sat here
Thinking 'bout our sin
Seven days to realize
The trouble I'm in
Seven days to weigh the price
The man will make me pay
Seven days to think about
I saw a ship a sailing on the ocean blue
I ran right down to the ocean side in hopes that it was you
So long ago you left me to sail to a foreign land
But when that ship went sailing by my hopes dropped to the sand
Seabreeze ocean wave bring my lover please
Turn her sails toward my heart and bring her back to me
The rising sun reminds me of the day she had to go
She set her sails to the morning tide and filled my heart with woe
She told me when she left me she'd sail to many shores
But her heart her dreams would always be with the one that she loved so
Seabreeze ocean wave...
I am a roving gambler
Gamble all around
Whenever I need a deck of cards
I lay my money down
I've gambled down in Cape Town
Played cards in Bloemfontein
But I'm going back to Kimberley
To gamble my last game
To gamble my last game
I had been in Kimberley
Many more days than three
I fell in love with a purdy little girl
She fell in love with me
She took me in her parlor
Cooled me with a fan
She whispered low in her mother's ear
I love this gamblin' man
I love this gamblin' man
Tonight I'll go out on the town
Hoping lady luck will bring
A winning hand to this gamblin' man
Then I'll buy a diamond ring
The gamblers took their places
The cards were dealt around
I caught him dealin' from the bottom of the deck
And I shot that gambler down
Here I am in prison
Draggin' a ball and chain
I can still hear the old judge say
You've gambled your last game
On July 31st 1943 a bloody round in the battle for the Solomon Islands
Was being fought in the tangled jungle of the island of New Georgia
This is the story of one of the young men who fought and died there
This song is respectfully dedicated to those heroic infantrymen
Who like Roger Young have sacrificed their lives
That their nation might remain forever free
Oh, they've got no time for glory in the infantry
Oh, they've got no time for praises loudly sung
But in every soldier's heart in all the infantry
Shines the name, shines the name of Roger Young
Shines the name - Roger Young
Fought and died for the men he marched among
In the everlasting glory of the infantry
Shines the name of Private Roger Young
Caught in ambush lay a company of riflemen
Just grenades against machine guns in the gloom
Caught in ambush till this one of twenty riflemen
Volunteered volunteered to meet his doom
Volunteered Roger Young
Fought and died for the men he marched among
In the everlasting courage of the infantry
Was the courage of Private Roger Young
It was he who drew the fire of the enemy
That a company of men might live to fight;
And before the deadly fire of the enemy,
Stood the man, stood the man we hail tonight.
Stood the man, Roger Young,
Fought and died for the men he marched among;
Like the everlasting spirit of the infantry,
Was the spirit of Private Rodger Young.
On the island of New Georgia in the Solomons
Stands a simple wooden cross alone to tell
That beneath the silent coral of the Solomons
Sleeps a man sleeps a man remembered well
Sleeps a man Roger Young
Fought and died for the men he marched among
In the everlasting glory of the infantry
(Ramona, Ramona)
Ramona
I hear the mission bells above
Ramona
They're ringing out our song of love
I press you, caress you
And bless the day you taught me to care
I'll always remember the rambling rose
You wore in your hair
Ramona
When day is done you'll hear my call
Ramona
We'll meet beside the waterfall
I dread the dawn
When I awake to find you gone
Ramona
I made you my own
(Ramona)
When day is done you'll hear my call
(Ramona)
We'll meet beside the waterfall
I dread the dawn
When I awake to find you gone
Ramona
I made you my own
Might as well admit it, you don't really love me
You've been acting funny for so long
It hurts to think that you think you're above me
But it hurts more to admit that I've been wrong
Need a bottle and a table, I can find those
Maybe they will help speed up time's crazy crawl
Might as well go around and join the winos
Ain't it funny how pride goes before a fall?
Yes, pride goes before a fall, I've got a feeling
That I'm gonna sink much lower than them all
When we first met I went way above the ceiling
Ain't it funny how pride goes before a fall?
Pour the wine, dim the lights and play the jukebox
Dance with every Sue and Betty that's around
Take her out and try your luck that's what's expected
What's the difference? It can't bring your honor down
You are now a full fledged member of the rat race
Forget everything that's decent have a ball
What's the difference if you die in this or that place?
Ain't it funny how pride goes before a fall?
(What's the difference if you die in this or that place?)
Come to the barbeque and sit by my side
We couldn't chose a better night if we tried
Can't you imagine what a thrill it will be
Pickin' a chicken with me.
It's so romantic the moon up above
Is such a fright on a night such as this
Pullin' a wish bone with someone you love
Is almost certain to end with a kiss.
So come to the barbeque my darlin', my dear
I'm so in love with you and when you are near
I get a feelin' that forever you'll be
Pickin' a chicken with me.
--- Whistles ---
It's so romantic the moon up above
Is such a fright on a night such as this
Pullin' a wish bone with someone you love
Is almost certain to end up with a kiss.
So come to the barbeque my darlin', my dear
I'm so in love with you and when you are near
I get a feelin' that forever you'll be
Pickin' a chicken with me.
--- Whistles ---
Pickin' a chicken with me
Oh well I'm tired and I'm weary
But I must go alo-ong
Till the Lord shall come and call me
Call me away-ay oh-oh-oh yes
Then the mornin' so bri-ight
And the lamb is the lig-ight
And the night, the night is as bla-ack
As the sea-ea, oh yes
There will be peace in the valley
For me-ee-ee-ee some day
There will be pea-eace in the valley
For me, oh Lord I pray
There'll be no sadness, no sorrow (oh my Lord)
No more trouble, trouble I see
There will be peace in the valley
For me some day
There will be peace in the valley
For me-ee-ee-ee some day
There will be pea-eace in the valley
For me, oh Lord I pray
There'll be no sadness, no sorrow (my Lord)
No trouble, trouble I see
There will be pea-eace in the valley
Two partners went in search of gold
As friendly as could be
One was young and one was old
And the gay young fool was me
Since neither one could write his name
We swore upon our souls
To share the wealth and then shook hands
The hands that dug for gold
(Oh partners)
The summer days were gone at last
And winter nights grew cold
The snow had trapped us in the pass
When we finally find the gold
We took our fortune to the shack
To wait the winter through
But the food ran low so I killed my friend
What else was there to do?
(Oh partners)
I threw his body just outside
Into the bitter cold
Somehow I had to stay alive
I now had all the gold
But the howling wind just seemed to say
You have killed a man
And you'll never get to spend the gold
With the blood upon your hands
(Oh partners)
The cabin's covered now with snow
And shelves of food are bare
Satan's waitin' for me now
And I'm too cold to care
Is that the devil at the door
Coming for my soul
Or is it just the old man
A looking for his gold?
Give me one dozen roses
Put my heart in beside them
Send them to the one I love
She'll be glad to receive them
And I know she'll believe them
There's something we've been talking of
There may be orange blossoms later
I think that there will
She's done something to me
And my heart won't keep still
Give me one dozen roses
Put my heart in beside them
Send them to the one I love
There may be orange blossoms later
I think that there will
'Cos she's done something to me
And my heart just won't keep still
Give me one dozen roses
Put my heart in beside them
Send them to the one I love
Send them to the one I
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
It's good enough for me
It was good for the Hebrew children
It was good for the Hebrew children
It was good for the Hebrew children
It's good enough for me
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
It's good enough for me
It was good for dad and mother
It was good for dad and mother
It was good for dad and mother
And it's good enough for me
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
It's good enough for me
It will do when I am dyin'
It will do when I am dyin'
It will do when I am dyin'
It's good enough for me
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
Many years have come and gone since I wandered from my home
In those Oklahoma hills where I was born
Many a page of life has turned many a lesson I have learned
And I feel that in those hills I still belong
Way down yonder in the Indian nation ride my pony on the reservation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
A way down yonder in the Indian nation a cowboy's life is my occupation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
As I sit here today many miles I am away
From a place I rode my pony through the drove
Where the oak and blackjack trees kiss the playful prairie breeze
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
Way down yonder in the Indian nation ride my pony on the reservation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
A way down yonder in the Indian nation a cowboy's life is my occupation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
As I turn life a page to the land of a great old sage
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
Where the Black bony River flows in the snow white cotton grows
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
Way down yonder in the Indian nation ride my pony on the reservation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
A way down yonder in the Indian nation a cowboy's life is my occupation
Not until the next time
Will I cry all night for you
Yes, I'll stop loving you
Until the next time
Here I am the way you left me
With a heart so full of pain
As I look into the past
I see this picture once again
Each time I let it happen
I vow, 'This is the end'
And I stopped loving you
Until the next time
Not until the next time
Will I cry all night for you
And listen when you beg me
For a chance when you're untrue
Not until the next time
Will my heart let me forgive
Yes, I'll stop loving you
Until the next time
Once again I take your picture
And place it out of sight
And I put away the records
We listen to each night
I rearrange each little thing
As I've done so many times
And I won't put them back
Until the next time
Not until the next time
Will I cry all night for you
And listen when you beg me
For a chance when you're untrue
Not until the next time
Will my heart let me forgive
Yes, I'll stop loving you
When you were a little girl and lived across the street
We would walk to the candy store and I would always treat
"Little big-hearted Candy Boy", the candy man would say
When I bought you candy bars to steal your heart away
Just a nickel piece of candy
Used to make your dreams come true
You'd hold my hand and tell me
"Someday I'll love you"
Through the years of growing up I thought your love grew too
'Til your heart longed for the things I couldn't buy for you
Slowly I could feel your love begin to fade and die
Then you found another much wealthier than I
Just a nickel piece of candy
Used to make your dreams come true
You'd hold my hand and tell me
"Someday I'll love you"
Little girl with golden curls and eyes for diamond rings
You grew up and soon forgot so many simple things
But I wonder if you're happy now 'cause when you pass me by
I think I see a teardrop in the corner of your eye
Just a nickel piece of candy
Used to make your dreams come true
You'd hold my hand and tell me
"Someday I'll love you"
My heart's like a welcome mat
Like some old coat or some old hat
It plays a game of tit for tat
My heart's like a welcome mat
It never knows which way to turn
Like a child that's twice been burned
It never knows which way to go
It only knows I love you so
My heart's like a welcome mat
Like a little mouse when it sees a cat
It's only song is pitter pat
My heart's like a welcome mat
My heart's like a welcome mat
Like a little mouse when it sees a cat
It's only song is pitter pat
My heart's like a welcome mat
It never knows which way to turn
Like a child that's twice been burned
It never knows which way to go
It only knows I love you so
My heart's like a welcome mat
She walked on it now you walked on it
It seems no one will ever want it
My blinde hart wil geen oomblik langer weet nie
dat ek vir jou nooit regtig kan vertrou..
My blinde hart sal jou nooit kan vergeet nie -
dalk het jy my harteloos verlei...
'n Duisend mooi beloftes het jy nooit gehou nie,
maar geduldig bly ek in my uur van smart;
My dwaasheid eis dat ek jou nooit meer moet wantrou nie -
daarom leef jou beeld hier in my blinde hart.
'n Duisend mooi beloftes het jy nooit gehou nie,
maar geduldig bly ek in my uur van smart;
My dwaasheid eis dat ek jou nooit meer moet wantrou nie -
(Shall we gather at the river that flows by the throne of God)
The church doors opened one Sunday in a little country town
The people all were silent in the rain that misted down
And an old gray-haired granddad his shoulders stooped with pain
Was holdin' fast a little boy who kept cryin' in the rain
And in the dim candlelight within a casket lay so still
That soon would lie beneath the earth up at the top of the hill
The little boy kept askin' in a low and plaintive tone
What's wrong with mommy grandpa won't she be comin' home
It's awful lonesome grandpa since daddy went away
And mommy's all the reason why I'm happy every day
Wouldn't she feel better grandpa if I layed down by her side
The old man turned and faced him and with these words replied
Mother went a walkin' son away up in the sky
Along the brook that winds among the stars up there on high
And down the valley where the sun goes home at night to sleep
Mother went a walkin' son she wouldn't want us to weep
The boy didn't seem to understand just where his mom had gone
He couldn't realize that now she wouldn't be comin' home
He saw the rain on grandpa's face he didn't know he cried
And of course he couldn't hear the words that grandpa said inside
Mother went a walkin' son up yonder in the sky
And all that we can do down here son is bow our heads and cry
She's gone to meet your daddy son and take him by the hand
(Sang - Carol)
I'm the mother of a honky tonk girl
And I die when they speak my babies name
I hope that God will forgive me
For now I know that I'm to blame.
(Spoken - Jim)
Excuse me friend
For intruding this way
But there's somethng
I've just got to say.
I remember this girl
They're whispering about
Just like it was yesterday
When she was small.
They'd bring her in the tavern
And set her on a stool
And give her a drink of their beer and laugh.
I thought, oh, you crazy fools.
But what could I do
Or what could I say
I'm just a bar tender
And work here for my pay.
And I just cry
When I hear a mother say.
(Sang - Carol)
I'm the mother of a honky tonk girl
And I die when they speak my babies name
I hope that God will forgive me
For now I know that I'm to blame.
(Spoken - Jim)
You probably wonder why
I chose to condemn the stuff I sell
But I've seen the hurt it's caused
And the souls it's sent to hell.
Once they're on the wrong road
With temptation let us turn around
Like the girl they're all talking about
The one they're running down.
Instead of giving her a drink of beer
Where angels have never trod
They should have given her a taste of love
Yes, and a taste of God.
(Sang - Carol)
I hope that God will forgive me
Not until the next time
Will I cry all night for you
Yes, I'll stop loving you
Until the next time.
Here I am the way you left me
With a heart so full of pain
As I look into the past
I see the picture once again.
Each time I let it happen
I vow this is the end
And I stopped loving you
Until the next time.
Not until the next time
Will I cry all night for you
And listen when you beg me
For a chance when your untrue.
Not until the next time
Will my heart let me forgive
Yes, I'll stop loving you
Until the next time.
Once again I take your picture
And place it out of sight
And I put away the record
We listen to each night.
I rearrange each little thing thing
As I've done so many times
And I won't put them back
Until the next time.
Not until the next time
Will I cry all night for you
And listen when you beg me
For a chance when your untrue.
Not until the next time
Will my heart let me forgive
Yes, I'll stop loving you
Star above please shine so bright cause I need your guiding light
My missing angel hides from me
Won't you hover overhead send your beam on where she's fled
My missing angel hides from me
If it be a million miles I'll be on my way
Guess I've loved her all the while I was wrong that day
Where do missing angels go when their heart is broken so
My missing angel hides from me
[ piano ]
South from Okeechobee and reachin' to the keys lays the mighty wonder nature made
A hundred miles of jade the mighty everglades
It's beautiful at sunset but oh there's something else that makes bravest heart afraid
A word of things acrawling and athumping and abawling and awadin' in the Everglades
Creeping seeping I heard a million things a weeping
As I gazed into the weirdness of the mighty everglades
Over and over I called oh please come back my lover
But my love is dead or wand'ring in the fearful everglades
Voices calling shadows falling spirits of those who ventured in and stayed
Hear it fear it never never go too near it
For there's myst'ry in the hist'ry of the mighty everglades
Seeping crawling spirits calling sliddin' hidin' my love in the everglades
Over and over I call but now she's gone for ever
And my heart is wand'ring with her through the mighty everglades
This is Christmas season so there isn't any reason
We can't dance the Christmas polka
Hear sleigh bells ringing everybody's singing
Dancing the Christmas polka
Christmas trees and holly, make everyone so jolly
And love just fills the air
It's a wonderful world for a boy and a girl
While dancing the Christmas polka
The merry Christmas polka
Let's dance, let's dance, let's dance
Everyone's so happy
The air is filled with romance
Watch the sweethearts kissin'
As they dance neath the mistletoe
It's a sight to behold for the young and the old
The merry Christmas polka
The merry Christmas polka
This is Christmas season so there isn't any reason
We can't dance the Christmas polka
Hear sleigh bells ringing everybody's singing
Dancing the Christmas polka
Christmas trees and holly, make everyone so jolly
And love just fills the air
It's a wonderful world for a boy and a girl
Maria Elena you're the answer to a prayer Maria Elena can't you see how much I care
To me your voice is like the echo of a sigh
And when you're near my heart can't speak above a sigh
Maria Elena say that we will never part Maria Elena take me to your heart
A love like mine is great enough for two to share this love is really all I ask of you
[ guitar ]
Making believe that you still love me
It's leaving me alone and so blue
I'll always dream though I'll never own you
Making believe that's all I can do
I can't hold you close when you're not with me
You're somebody's love, you'll never be mine
Making believe, I'll spend my lifetime
Loving you just making believe
I'm making believe that I'll never lost you
But my happy hour, I'll find now so few
My plans for the future will never come true now
I'm making believe, what else can I do?
I can't hold you close, darlin' when you're not with me
You're somebody's love, you'll never be mine
Making believe, I'll spend my lifetime
Tease me a little bit squeeze me a little bit love me a little bit more
Love me a little bit can't get enough of it tell me I'm the one you adore
I'm in a pettin' mood you've got me hooked for good
I'm yours and that's for sure
Squeeze me a little bit tease me a little bit love me a little bit more
Mommy warned me I'd meet girls who'd make me feel like this
But she never mentioned these crazy flip-flops my heart does when we kiss
Oh what a shape I'm in you've got me in a spin never felt this way before
You make a livin' seem just like a pretty dream love me a little bit more
[ piano - steel - fiddle ]
Love me a little bit kiss me and never quit you know I want it that way
I dream of a honeymoon it can't be too soon just can't wait for the day
I want to share your life want you to be my wife a feeling I can't ignore
Crazy bout your charms want you in my arms love me a little bit more
The first day when you smiled at me you had me on your string
You got me building my dreams around the month of June and a wedding ring
Love me a little bit can't get enough of it I'm standing at your door
Love me all the time say you'll be only mine love me a little bit more
(feat. Dottie West)
B: Love is no excuse for what we're doing
What's more we know that two hearts could break
We tell ourselves we've got to have each other
But love is no excuse for us to make.
J: Sure we love each other and this could be so right
D: But not if someone else has got to pay
J: Our love for each other looks good in the night
B: But our love should never see the light of day.
It's been going on for much to long now
And our wrongs have mounted one by one
We tell ourselve it's 'cause we love each other
But love is no excuse for what we've done.
--- Instrumental ---
It's been going on for much to long now
And our wrongs have mounted one by one
We tell ourselve it's 'cause we love each other
But love is no excuse for what we've done...
Little ole dime
You're the last of a pocket full
I put all the others in this telephone
I've called all over town for a lost love
Let this last number be
The right one
Little ole dime
You're my last chance to find her
And I'm placing all my last hopes on you
Let me tell her I'll always be waitin'
Just in case things don't work out
With someone new
Little ole dime
Please don't disappoint me
I can't call anymore
You're my last dime
Tomorrow she'll be gone
With her new love
And I've just got to talk to her
One more time
Little ole dime
As you leave my shakin' fingers
I pray I'll hear her answer the phone
The sound of her voice will ease my heartaches
Even though I know tomorrow
She'll be gone
Little ole dime
Here you go after the others
If she answers or not it's still goodbye
I'm almost afraid to dial the number
If she isn't there I know
I'm gonna cry
Little ole dime
Please don't disappoint me
I can't call anymore
You're my last dime
Tomorrow she'll be gone
With her new love
And I've just got to talk to her
James Lord Pierpont publ. 1857
(Jingle ling a ling, Ahhh)
(Jingle ling a ling, Ahhh)
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh,
Oer the fields we go,
Laughing all the way;
Bells on bob-tail ring,
Making spirits bright,
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
(Jingle ling a ling, Ahhh)
(Jingle ling a ling, Ahhh)
Now the ground is white
So go it while you're young,
Take the girls tonight
And sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bob-tailed nag
Two-forty for his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! you'll take the lead.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way!
What fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
It's only a paper moon sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make believe if you believe in me
It's only a canvas sky hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make believe if you believe in me
Without your love it's a honky tonk parade
Without your love it's a melody played in a penny arcade
It's a Bonnom and Daily World just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make believe if you believe in me
Take away the breath of flowers
It would surely be a sin
Take the rain from April showers
It's a sin
Take away the violins, dear
From a lovely symphony
And the music deep within
Would cease to be
Is it a sin to love you so?
To hold you close and know you are leaving?
Though you take away my heart, dear
Still the beating's there within
I'll keep loving you forever
For it's no sin
Is it a sin to love you so?
To hold you close and know you are leaving?
Though you take away my heart, dear
Still the beating's there within
I'll keep loving you forever
The chimes of time ring out the news, another day is through
Someone slipped and fell, was that someone you?
You may have longed for added strength your courage to renew
Do not be disheartened, I have news for you
It is no secret, what God can do
What He's done for others, He'll do for you
With arms wide open, He'll pardon you
It is no secret, what God can do
There is no night for in His light, you'll never walk alone
You'll always feel at home, wherever you may roam
There is no power can conquer you while God is on your side
Take him at his promise, don't run away and hide
It is no secret, what God can do
What He's done for others, He'll do for you
With arms wide open, He'll pardon you
Count the raindrops in a rainstorm count the leaves upon a tree
Count the stars up in the heavens count the fish down in the sea
Put them all together and here's what you would find
They'd be equal to the kisses you would get if you were mine
If you were mine mine mine if you were only mine
I would love you more than you've ever been loved before
Count the times the sun has risen since the day the world began
Find a beach beside the ocean count the little grains of sand
Had them both together and here's what you would find
They'd be equal to the love you would find if you were only mine
[ fiddle ]
Take a child's love for its mother it's a love that never ends
Take a brothers love for brother or the love of mans best friend
Put them all together and here's what you would find
They'd be equal to the love I'd have for you if you were only mine
My hands reach out to touch someone
But they know she's not there
My memory keeps running back
To one who used to care
My heart has lost the will to live
My lips the will to smile
If heartache is the fashion
Then I guess that I'm in style
The places I'm invited to
I never want to go
Afraid I'll see my old sweetheart
With her new love and so
I stay home and walk the floor
As if it's my last night
If heartache is the fashion
Then I guess that I'm in style
My lips will miss the tender kiss
That someone else will know
My eyes will not forget the day
I stood and watched her go
My arms will ache to hold the love
That I held for a while
If heartache is the fashion
I once had a mansion and lived in my glory
But now I'm down to my last dime
I had a sweetheart but I was unfaithful
Oh I've lived a lot in my time
I fought the grim reaper down in the dark valley
Prayed when the sun wouldn't shine
I've looked through the bars of a cold lonely prison
Yes, I've lived a lot in my time
I've been a soldier and I've been a rambler
Once thought that everything was fine
I've put in the cornfields, I've picked in the cotton
Yes I've lived a lot in my time
I've walked with our Master down in the dark valley
And wonderful peace I did find
Someday I'll journey to Eden's green pastures
I'm waiting for ships that never come in I wonder where they can be
Life is only a game of poker and happiness is the partner
They deal you five cards in the cradle and you play with your like it or not
Some game had a start with and the game doesn't seem on the square
When you pick up your cards and discover you were born without even a pair
But there's no use in kicking nor squawking
Just pick up your cards and begin to figure in plan and puzzle
While fate looks on with a grin
Some take a chance on bluffing and stake everything they've got
On a little yankee poor flush and sometimes that wins a plot
Others will break up openers to draw for a middle straight
They know the chance they're takin' and they learned your mistake too late
Some can't plan crook it against all good advice
But they seldom get away with it at the end they've paid the price
The most of us play straight poker but I'll tell you boys it's hard
When you're there with both ends open and you can't draw the winning card
Now I've always been a loser it seems that I never can win
Andr I'm just a dreamer who's waiting for ships that never come in
I'd walk by the same spot where we walked that night
I remembered your kisses and tears dimmed my sight
I'm glad you're better I'm glad you're better
I talked with that old friend he said you're blue as can be
Now I can tell you it's the same way with me
I'm glad you're better I'm glad you're better
I know we'll never be the same we both stood much too close to the flame
How I'd cry at the sound of your name
Ja ek verlang na jou my liefling en ek droom van jou oe so blou
Ja ek dink net aan jou my liefling en my hart is'n mantel van rou
I gaze at the stars with a prayer in my heart
I ask for bitter strength just to hate and depart
Ja kom nou terug na my my liefling ek verlang na my liefling vanaand
[ guitar ]
Toe jy my verlaat het is my wereld verskeur
Die son het ophou skyn en die maan het verkleur
I'm beginning to forget you
That old heartache is gone
I'm beginning to sleep at night
No more crying 'till dawn.
I can hear your name mentioned now
And it brings no misery
I'm beginnin to forget you
Like you forgot me.
I'm beginning to smile again
After crying for so long
I can hear the tune we loved, so well
And it's just another song.
I'm so happy that it's over
I'm so thankful to be free
I'm beginnin to forget you
Like you forgot me.
--- Whistles with Instrumental ---
I can hear the tune we loved, so well
And it's just another song.
I'm so happy that it's over
I'm so thankful to be free
I'm beginnin to forget you
I'm a fool to care when you treat me this way
I know I love you but what can I do I'm a fool to care
I'm a fool to cry when you tell me goodbye
You left me so blue when you were untrue I'm a fool to care
I know I should laugh and call it a day but I know I would cry if you go away
I'm a fool to care when you don't care for me
Why should I pretend I'd lose in the end I'm a fool to care
[ strings ]
I'll tell the world I love
I'll tell the world I care,
For ev'ry time I need you
I always find you there.
You've been my inspiration
You've my guiding light
And when you walk beside me,
I feel ev'rything is alright.
As sweet as the sunset at evening,
As true as the stars on high
You've made my life forever,
Nothing but a clear blue sky.
Never a reason to doubt you,
Credit where credit is due,
I'll shout it to the whole world
I'll tell the world I love you.
I KNOW THAT I WON'T FORGET YOU
FOR I'VE LOVED YOU TOO MUCH FOR TOO LONG
THOUGH YOU DON'T WANT ME NOW
I'LL STILL LOVE YOU
'TIL THE BREATH IN MY BODY HAS GONE
THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH ME
AND YOU'LL ALWAYS BE
THE ONLY LOVE I EVER KNEW
I'LL FORGET MANY THINGS IN MY LIFE TIME
BUT MY DARLING I WON'T FORGET YOU
THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH ME
AND YOU'LL ALWAYS BE
THE ONLY LOVE I EVER KNEW
I'LL FORGET MANY THINGS IN MY LIFE TIME
Some glad morning when this life is o'er
I'll fly away
To a home on God's celestial shore
I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh Glory I'll fly away when I die
Hallelujah by and by I'll fly away
When the shadows of this life have flown
I'll fly away
Like a bird from prison bars has flown
I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh Glory I'll fly away when I die
Hallelujah by and by I'll fly away
Just a few more weary days and then
I'll fly away
To a land where joy shall never end
I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh Glory yes I'll fly away when I die
I know that I won't forget you
For I've loved you too much for too long
Though you don't want me now, I'll still love you
'Til the breath in my body is gone
That's how it is with me and you'll always be
The only love I ever knew
I'll forget many things in my lifetime
But my darling I won't forget you
That's how it is with me and you'll always be
The only love I ever knew
I'll forget many things in my lifetime
I never did what I was told
I liked to have my way.
I£§d never come when I was called
That was my golden rule
Let me tell you what became of me
I grew up to be a mule.
--- Instrumental ---
When I was only very young
I used to tell such tales
I never liked to wash my face
I'd even bite my nails.
I'd never want to go to bed
Now kids you please note
Let me tell you what became of me
I grew up to be a goat. (He grew up to be a goat.)
When I was still a little boy
I thought I knew it all
I never listened to my folks
Now pride must have a fall.
I really thought I was so smart
As crafty as a fox
Let me tell you what became of me
I grew up to be (an ox.)
--- Instrumental ---
Now if you would escape my fate
And never be a mule
If you don£§t want to be like me
An ox, a goat, or a fool.
Remember what I told to you
And heed all my advice
Let me tell you what'll become of you
I've tried my very best to meet all of your demands
The more I try more faults you find I just don't understand
You want me to be perfect and with all my heart I've tried
You're looking for an angel and I'm sorry I can't fly
If you could only feel the pain that's in this heart of mine
Each little fault you find with me you turn into a crime
Your doubtful thoughts and jealousy have caused our love to die
You're looking for an angel and I'm sorry I can't fly
[ fiddle - steel ]
Love could have been the sweetest thing two people ever knew
If you had only realized how much I cared for you
I know you'll go on searching for that perfect guy
I've had nothing but sorrow
Since you said we were through
There's no hope for tomorrow
How's the world treating you?
Every sweet thing that matters
Has been broken in two
All my dreams have been shattered
How's the world treating you?
Got no plans for next Sunday
Got no plans for today
Every day is blue Monday
Every day you're away
Though our pathways have parted
To your memory I'm true
Guess I'll stay broken hearted
How's the world treating you?
Do you wonder about me?
Like I'm hoping you do
Are you lonesome without me?
Have you found someone new?
Are you burning and yearning?
Do you ever get blue?
Do you think of returning?
How's the world treating you?
Do you think of returning?
If all the guys you ever knew were standing here in front of you
I wonder just how many there would be
If everyone you ever kissed was put on paper in a list
I wonder just how many there would be
You must have kissed a million for everywhere we go
You seem so well acquainted the way they smile and say hello
If I could count their broken hearts like I would have if we should part
I wonder just how many there would be
[ steel ]
With pen in hand, I try to write this note to you
I know now where I stand but what am I to do
I found so many things to say since we're so far apart
How can I write on paper what I feel in my heart?
How can I write on paper, what I'm feeling deep inside
Words to you would last no longer, then it take tear to dry
A love as sweet as your and mine, deserve another start
How can I write on paper what I feel in my heart?
Those simple things you gave are worth the world to me
And each up when I cling to you can take memories
So many things were left unsaid, I don't know where to start
How can I write on paper what I feel in my heart?
How can I write on paper, what I'm feeling deep inside
Words to you would last no longer, then it take tear to dry
A love as sweet as your and mine, deserve another start
The music was lovely
The lights they were low
The couples were happy's
They swayed to and fro.
But my heart was heavy
With love I had lost
As we danced
To the hillbilly waltz.
The hillbilly waltz
Lovely hillbilly waltz
Tells a story
Of love that was false.
I'll always remember
As long as I live
The beautiful hillbilly waltz.
--- Instrumental ---
The girl in my arms
Seemed so happy and gay
But she knew I was dreaming
Of my yesterday.
Hoping that somewhere
Our pathway would cross
As we danced to
The hillbilly waltz.
The hillbilly waltz
Lovely hillbilly waltz
Tells a story
Of love that was false.
I'll always remember
As long as I live
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
Blue skies of Hawaiian smile
On this our wedding day
I do love you
(I do love you)
Oh, Gypsy heart when you hear the whistle of a train
You forget the promise that you made down in lover's lane
You forget the kisses warm
The way you held her in your arms
You forget the way you thrilled her heart with all your gypsy charms.
Oh - oh - ohhhhhhhhhhh
Hear the whistle blow
Oh - oh - ohhhhhhhhhhh
Away, away you go
Gypsy heart you want love but not the settled kind
You'll be the death of love for me oh gypsy heart of mine.
I met a girl Birmingham with eyes so big and blue
I loved her since she said I cannot roam my dear with you
She said I want a little home
A heart to love and not roam
I'm sure someday you'll find your own a gypsy heart like you.
Oh - oh - ohhhhhhhhhhh
Hear the whistle blow
Oh - oh - ohhhhhhhhhhh
Away, away you go
Up till now the girls you've loved have all been very smart
They know even the change of love can't bind your gypsy heart.
Gypsy heart the wind that blows so far across the sea
Most of you will come along there's pretty things to see
In Ireland there are fair colleens
And songs of long ago
And the lovely ladies down in Spain oh gypsy heart let's go.
Oh - oh - ohhhhhhhhhhh
Hear the whistle blow
Oh - oh - ohhhhhhhhhhh
Away, away you go
You've been doin' everything since Noah sailed his ark
Gypsy feet will wander
Gypsy feet will stray
Neither love nor thunder
Can ever make them stay
I can't tame a heart so wild
Like a jungle drum it beats
Were you born a devil's child
With restless gypsy feet
Gypsy feet keep dancin'
To the tune of violins
Just like devil's prancin'
You dance away your sins
If I could tame your restless heart
Would make my life complete
But I can't put an anchor
On those gypsy feet
My picture's in your locket
On that golden chain
Money's in your pocket
And you're gone again
Gypsy lips will promise
Vows they never keep
Hearts like mine are crumbled
Beneath your gypsy feet
Gypsy feet keep dancin'
To the tune of violins
Just like devil's prancin'
You dance away your sins
If I could tame your restless heart
Would make my life complete
But I can't put an anchor
On those gypsy feet
Gypsy feet
This is the story of love that came undone
This is the story of two men
And a gun of two men and a gun
A man that I'd never met stole my wife and son
But that's been nearly three years now
And it's over with and done
At first I'd stare out into space
While hate consumed my soul
Hate was the creed by which I lived
And revenge my only goal
But the road to happiness isn't paved with hate
I'm glad I learned how to forgive before it was too late
Now here's the way the other man
Paid for what he'd done
I heard it from the man's own lips
Who took my wife and son
I didn't really know this man but I'd seen him 'round
He's a new guard at the factory
Where I work, west of town
This fellow swung into step with me and said I've got to talk
I listened spellbound at his words
As we stood on the walk
You, the guard said hoarsely
Are a kind man, I surmise
As he stood there with his handkerchief
Wiping in his eyes
Three years ago I wronged a man
I stole his wife and son
I didn't realize then the terrible thing that I had done
This thing gets hold of me at night
And I can't sleep or rest
Forgive me, sir, but telling it
Seems to get it off my chest
When my past looms up like this
It kinda helps me to unload
I'm one man, sir, who knows for sure
That you reap just what you sow
I sure appreciate your listening, it helps me a lot
You know to have that man's forgiveness
I'd give everything I've got
Well, I feel much better now I, I didn't get your name
More why that was my wife's name before we wed
It's odd your name's the same
You know I'd kill a man
Who'd do to me the thing that I've done
And when the truth got through to him
He handed me his gun
As I gave the weapon back
I said what's done is done
I dream of a golden moon and silver stars
When first we met and danced to sweet guitars
Music that breaks my heart bringing me dear
Golden memories and silver tears
Golden memories and silver tears
Are my lonely heart's souvenirs
All that you've left me are memories dear
Golden memories and silver tears
And now dear my golden moon pass and turn to blue
And all those silver stars are gone with you
Old memory of love bringing me pain
Oh how sad to love and love all in vain
Golden memories and silver tears
Are my lonely heart's souvenirs
All that you've left me are memories dear
The Gods were angry with me for loving you
The Gods were angry with me because they knew
I stood at Heaven's portal and that was too high
For any mortal such as I
So they took down the sun the skies were gray
Then the howling winds took you away
And there was nothing I could do because I knew
The Gods were angry with me for loving you
Once upon a time when our love was new
And I was happy with the love that I've found
Then the Gods and the Sun and the Moon
And the Stars looked down and saw me there with you
And they sent my dream world crash into the ground
(It was because the Gods were angry with me)
The Gods were angry with me for loving you
The Gods were angry with me because they knew
I stood at Heaven's portal and that was too high
For any mortal such as I
And so they took down the sun, the skies were gray
And then the howling winds took you away
And there was nothing I could do because I knew
The Gods were angry with me for loving you
And so they took down the sun, the skies were gray
And then the howling winds took you away
And there was nothing I could do for I could see
God be with you till we meet again by his cancels guide and pull you
With his sheeps securely fold you God be with you till we meet again
Till we meet till we meet till we meet at Jesus feet
Till we meet till we meet God be with you till we meet again
God be with you till we meet again need his wings protect and hide you
Daily man I still provide you God be with you till we meet again
From a jack to a king
From loneliness to a wedding ring
I played an ace and I won a queen
And walked away with your heart
From a jack to a king
With no regrets I stacked the cards last night
And lady luck played her hand just right
And made me king of your heart
For just a little while
I thought that I might lose the game
Then just in time I saw the twinkle in your eye
From a jack to a king
From loneliness to a wedding ring
I played an ace and I won a queen
You made me king of your heart
For just a little while
I thought that I might lose the game
Then just in time I saw the twinkle in your eye
From a jack to a king
From loneliness to a wedding ring
I played an ace and I won a queen
FOUR WALLS (Jim Reeves)
Written by George Campbell and Marvin Moore
Out where the bright lights are glowing
You're drawn like a moth to a flame
You laugh while the wine's overflowing
While I sit and whisper your name
CHORUS:
Four walls to hear me
Four walls to see
Four walls too near me
Closing in on me
Sometimes I ask why I'm waiting
But my walls have nothing to say
I'm made for love not for hating
So here where you left me I'll stay
One night with you is like heaven
And so while I'm walking the floor
I listen for steps in the hallway
As I write this letter to you darling I can't hold the teardrops from my eyes
For at sundown I will lay a dying at the door of the Fool's Paradise
Rode into this cattle town this morning left my bearer to check the market price
And I walked into the nearest barroom they call it the Fool's Paradise
There the crowd was gay and girls were dancing
And the men were playing cards and dies
So I stepped up to the bar to join them what a grand place this Fool's Paradise
It was then I showed to them your picture I passed it around once or twice
Then a man insulted your sweet honor at the bar of the Fool's Paradise
So I slapped his face and I told him
I said you eat 'em words Mister or draw that's my advice
And he said well somebody might get hurty inside
But I'll be glad to meet you in the street at sundown
At sundown in front of the Fool's Paradise
So goodbye my darling may God bless you I go to make this sacrifice
While resting one evening by the side of the road
I saw an old farmer in the field he'd just hoed
His face was all brown and wrinkled by the wind
And he was talking to the Lord, just like he'd be talking to a friend
Well Sir, he said in a voice calm and quiet
Them corn tassels need stackin', but, uh, I got no string to tie it
Had no rain in so long that the fields are mighty dusty
And it's been so unbearable hot that the kids are even gettin' fussy
Now that grass down in the pasture should be knee high
If we could just have a little shower Lord- it might keep the calf from going dry
Oh- but listen to me talk, an' you'd think I wasn't grateful
Why if you didn't know me so well Lord you'd think I was down right hateful
You'd think I'd forgot about the new calf that you sent
And the money in the mail that took care of the rent
Ma's cold's better, and Johnny's home from the navy
And that good Sunday dinner of chicken, dumplings, and gravy
That new preacher you sent us Lord- he sure is a fine young man
Why he's just convertin' them sinners to beat the band
Well guess I'll mosey on along, Lord. Won't take no more your time
Guess there's plenty folks here about waitin' to ring your line
Evening to you Lord, and watch over us tonight
Echo Bonita I'm sad and blue my senorita is lonely too
Echo Bonita where can she be Echo Bonita please find her for me
Will you echo echo echo echo echo down Mexico way
She'll hear our echo echo echo echo echo and come back to stay
In our Ranchita for just we three Echo Bonita senora and me
[ guitar ]
Don't ask me why I stand aside and watch her break every rule
Why I close my eyes to her schemes and lies and play the part of a fool
Don't ask me why I love her still after all she's done to me
After deceiving me and leaving me with a heart full of misery
You might as well ask me why I breathe or why I live at all
I only know I must be there to answer if she calls
Don't ask me why I hang around why I keep standing by
But if you want to know I'll say I love her so though I don't know the reason why
[ steel ]
I hear the sound of distant drums
Far away, far away
And if they call for me to come
Then I must go and you must stay
So Mary marry me, let's not wait
Let's share all the time we can before it's too late
Love me now, for now is all the time there may be
If you love me Mary, Mary marry me
I hear the sound of bugles blow
Far away, far away
And if they call, then I must go
Across the sea, so wild and gray
So Mary marry me, let's not wait
For the distant drums might change our wedding date
And love me now, for now is all the time there may be
Diamond, diamonds in the sand
Old love like diamonds in your hand
Diamonds laying in the sand
Love slip though your fingers
Like diamonds in the sand.
Diamond love, diamond love.
Hold her tightly in your arms
Yes, while you can
Love is glad, love is sad
It is fickle like that fortune in the sand
I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
Maybe I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
There was a time you'd let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
And it's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
It seems you're always wonderin' why
With love you can't get started
Come and let me tell you why
You're too chicken hearted.
I know you have a yen for men
But you're afraid you'll offend
Some old time tried and true blue friend
Then you'd be all alone again.
Somehow you just don't seem to know
The very thing that you let go
Is just the thing that you love so
You're just to chicken hearted.
--- Instrumental ---
You just can't be to shy and weak
And soft hearted so to speak
Forget the things you did last week
'Cause that's being chicken hearted.
I know you'd like to say so long
To things that you've done wrong
Find yourself a brand new love
To make your heart go bong.
I sometimes wonder what you'd do
If someone should say to you
Just let's pitch a little woo
You're to chicken hearted.
--- Instrumental ---
I know you'd like to say so long
To things that you've done wrong
Find yourself a brand new love
To make your heart go bong.
I sometimes wonder what you'd do
If someone should say to you
Just let's pitch a little woo
C is for the Christ Child born upon this day
H is for Herald Angels in the night
R means our redeemer
I means Israel
S is for the star that shone so bright
T is for three wise men they who traveled far
M is for the manger where He lay
A is for all he stands for
S means shepherds came
And that's why there's a Christmas day
T is for three wise men
Bimbo, Bimbo, where ya gonna go-e-o
Bimbo, Bimbo, whatcha gonna do-e-o
Bimbo, Bimbo, does your mommy know
That you're goin' down the road to see a little girl-e-o
Bimbo is a little boy who's got a million friends
And every time he passes by, they all invite him in
He'll clap his hands, sing and dance, and talk his baby talk
With a hole in his pants and his knees a-stickin' out
He's just big enough to walk
Bimbo, Bimbo, where ya gonna go-e-o
Bimbo, Bimbo, whatcha gonna do-e-o
Bimbo, Bimbo, does your mommy know
That you're goin' down the road to see a little girl-e-o
Bimbo's got two big blue eyes that light up like a star
And the way to light them up is to buy him candy bars
Crackerjacks and bubblegum will start his day off right
All the girlies follow him just a-beggin' him for a bite
Bimbo, Bimbo, candy on your face-e-o
Bimbo, Bimbo, chewin' on your gum-e-o
Bimbo, Bimbo, when you gonna grow
Everybody loves you, little baby Bimbo
You never catch him sittin' still, he's just the rovin' kind
Although he's just a little boy, he's got a grown-up mind
He's always got a shaggy dog a-pullin' at his clothes
And everybody calls to him as down the street he goes
Bimbo, Bimbo, where ya gonna go-e-o
Bimbo, Bimbo, whatcha gonna do-e-o
Bimbo, Bimbo, does your mommy know
That you're goin' down the road to see a little girl-e-o
Bimbo
Bimbo
Bimbo
An old log house and it half-built
A home made bed, just one old quilt
A Holy Bible that ma left to me
Makes me as rich, as rich can be.
My friends have gold, yet they are sad
They own the best that can be had
While I just live from day to day
I know the Lord will make a way.
My corn crib's filled with nothing but cobs
'Cause corn won't grow on these poor knobs
The sun's too hot and the rain won't fall
There's a cloud in the sky but it's too small.
My housetop leaks and I get damp
Here on this earth I'm called a tramp
But I can smile and feel so proud
I know my home's beyond the clouds.
--- Instrumental ---
My old hound dog is growing thin
Like me he only has two friends
I'm sure that if we only knew
He longs for heaven like me and you.
My shoes are thin, my feet get cold
But I trudge on to make my goal
For I can smile and feel so proud
I know my home's beyond the clouds.
It was many and many a year ago
In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me
I was a child and she was a child
In this kingdom by the sea
But we loved with a love that was more than love
I and my Annabel Lee
With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me
And this was the reason that long ago
In this kingdom by the sea
A wind blew out of a cloud chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea
The angels not half so happy in heaven
Went envying her and me
Yes, that was the reason as all men know
In this kingdom by the sea
That the wind came out of the cloud by night
Chilling and killing my beautiful Annabel Lee
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many who were wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul
From the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee
For the moon never beams without bringing me
Dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
And so all the night-tide
I lie down by the side of my darling
My darling, my life and my bride
In the sepulcher there by the sea, in her tomb
By the sounding sea
Someone told a story when
They said they saw you out again
But I know better
'Cause angels don't lie
Wonder why they pick on you
Those friends even tell me too
But I don't listen
'Cause angels don't lie
I convinced myself
That it can't be true
(Can't be true)
Whatever you deny
I'll believe 'cause I love you
I refuse to listen to
All those lies they tell on you
I know better
'Cause angels don't lie
I convinced myself
It just can't be true
(Can't be true)
Whatever you deny
I'll believe 'cause I love you
I refuse to listen to
All those lies they tell on you
I know better
Am I losing you?
Are my fears coming true?
How I wish I knew
Am I losing you
Is your love really true?
Is there somebody new?
Tell me what to do
Am I losing you?
Am I too blind to see
What's been happening to me
Every road has a bend
Will I be sweetheart or friend?
Will the sweet things you do
Be for somebody new?
Tell me what to do
Am I losing you?
Am I too blind to see
What's been happening to me
Every road has a bend
Will I be sweetheart or friend?
Will the sweet things you do
Be for somebody new?
Tell me what to do
Accordin' to my hear-ear-eart
You're the one for me
The one love of my life is here
When you're with me
If someone stole your lo-o-ove
My heart would beat no more
For you're the one
My heart is always longin' for
'Though I don't know the reason why
My dreams don't turn out right
Still I'll keep listenin' to my heart
Who knows, someday they might
For accordin' to my hear-ear-eart
The future will be bright
And everyday I pray
That my heart knows what's right
Accordin' to my hear-ear-eart
You're the one for me
The one love of my life is here
When you're with me
If someone stole your lo-o-ove
My heart would beat no more
For you're the one
My heart is always longin' for
'Though I don't know the reason why
My dreams don't turn out right
Still I'll keep listenin' to my heart
Who knows, someday they might
For accordin' to my hear-ear-eart
The future will be bright
And everyday I pray
If ever your life is lonely
If ever your feeling low
There's one thing you must remember
A stranger's just a friend you do not know.
I'll pass along this way just one time only
A sweeping moment in eternity
Why should I spend my life alone and lonely
If just a word of friendship is the key
A warm smile can bring metrue love
A warm heart can make it so
There's no need for being lonely
A stranger's just a friend you do not know.
No Matter where you go of this you can be sure
Dear heart there is something I must tell you
Something sad and so hard for me to say
For I know how much you always loved her
And how you always hoped that she'd come back someday
But day after day my hopes grow dimmer as I watched life
and love passing me by
And the life I live is empty and so lonely
But you just lived for her and slowly let me die
You know she left me for another so give her up let her
go let it be
Dear heart if you won't stop beating for her then dear
heart stop beating for me
Pardon me if I'm sentimental
When we say goodbye
Don't be angry with me
Should I cry
When you're gone
Yet I'll dream a little dream as years go by
Now and then
There's a fool such as I
Now and then there's a fool such as I
Am over you
You taught me how to love
And now you say that we are through
I'm a fool but I'll love you dear
Until the day I die
Now and then
There's a fool such as I
Now and then there's a fool such as I
Am over you
You taught me how to love
And now you say that we are through
I'm a fool but I'll love you dear
Until the day I die
Now and then
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
It's good enough for me.
It was good for the Hebrew children
It was good for the Hebrew children
It was good for the Hebrew children
It's good enough for me.
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
It's good enough for me.
It was good for dad and mother
It was good for dad and mother
It was good for dad and mother
And it's good enough for me.
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
It's good enough for me.
It will do when I am dyin'
It will do when I am dyin'
It will do when I am dyin'
It's good enough for me.
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
Gimme that old time religion
It's good enough for me...
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