Your love blows me away like a breeze blows across the meadow
Like a trade wind blows across the bay your love blows me away
Your love shows me a world most men have never seen or dreamed of
Your love brings me a song no one else could ever sing a song of sweet love
Loving you takes my breath away till there's nothing left to say
Unless I could say hey your love blows me away...
[ guitar ]
Watching the stars fall from the skies
We must have closed our eyes cause now it's morning
Kissing the dew from your face I fall into your embrace where it's so warm
Loving you takes my breath away...
Someday we're gonna get away and spend some time together
Someday I'll hold you in my arms and not just my dreams
But as much as I want to love you and feel what lies in store
I don't worry I'm in no hurry cause you're worth waiting for
You're like a present with a pretty ribbon shining on a birthday morn
And I'm like a little boy who can't wait to untie the bow
But until the grapes are ripened and the wine is ready to pour
I don't worry I'm in no hurry cause you're worth waiting for
I can tell you're well worth waiting for everyday only makes me want you more
It's hard to stand outside and wait this close to heaven's door
But I don't worry I'm in no hurry cause you're worth waiting for
Time has passed and things have changed you've gone your way I've gone mine
On the surface it's all over but beneath the surface you're still on my mind
Cause you're still the only one I'll ever love forget the hours forget the miles
Your lips are still the lips I'm dreaming of and you're still the only one I'll ever love
[ steel ]
All my thoughts of you are good ones happy hours that just flew by
You were always someone special and you'll be my someone special till I die
And you're still the only one I'll ever love treasured mem'ries of treasured times
YOU LIED TO ME
Writer Bill Anderson
RECORDED BY TRACY BYRD
You looked at me as only you can look at me You touched my cheek and told me not to cry But you said you'd found somebody you loved more than me And you told me I'd forget you by and by But you lied to me, yes you lied to me You said time would close the wound that bled inside of me But every breath I take brings back your memory You said I'd forget you, but you lied to me Monday, I said Tuesday you'd be off my mind Then I gave myself 'til Wednesday then on down the line Funny how September turns to June so fast And you told me this pain was not the kind to last But you lied to me, yes you lied to me You said time would close the wound that bled inside of me But every breath I take brings back your memory You said I'd forget you, but you lied to me Oh you said I'd forget you, but you lied to me
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A BABY TO CRY
(Bob Merrill - Terry Shand)
« © '50 Joy Music »
You don't have to be a baby to cry
All you need is for love to go wrong
You don't have to be a baby to cry
Or to lay awake the whole night long
When you leave me my golden rainbow disappears
And you leave me a broken heart full of tears
These ain't raindrops in my eyes what should I lie
You don't have to be a baby to cry
When you leave me my golden rainbow disappears
And you leave me a broken heart full of tears
These ain't raindrops in my eyes what should I lie
The one I love found another she ran away with my best friend
Came home last night for just an hour daylight came she's gone again
Well you can have her I don't want her she never loved me anyway
She only wanted someone to play with but all I wanted was love to stay
[ guitar ]
Well if you get the wrong woman there's only one thing you can do
Just dig a hole crawl right in it and pull the ground in after you
Well you can have her...
[ steel ]
Life without love is mighty empty when you've got no one that you can hold
I'd rather have love I can cling to than have the world and all of its gold
Well you can have her...
I can see the dark clouds over head now I see raindrops falling from the sky
Seems every living thing is dead now ever since the day you said goodbye
I can hear the winter winds a blowing they chill my body to the bone
I can feel my life's slowly going livin' in a cold world all alone
But baby you can change my world by changing your mind
Drive away the clouds so the sun can shine
You can change it all by saying you're coming back and staying
You can change my world by changing your mind
[ guitar - steel ]
Mine is a world of desolation everything I cared about is gone
Only you can change the situation and all you got to do is come back home
Oh baby you can change my world...
They asked me to write a story describing the loveliest sight I've ever seen
And I wrote your name
They asked me to write a song and set all my dreams to music
And I did I wrote it again
For you are my story you are my song loving you baby all night long
You are my story you are my song loving you baby all night long all night long
[ steel ]
No story or no song could ever do justice to you and what you do for me
Every day of my life
I wish you only knew all the days I've made it through
Because of you and your sweet love
I wish that I could count the times peace and comfort filled my mind
Because of you and your sweet love
You're what keeps me going the sun that lights my sky
The rose that blooms in winter the rain that cools July
Never try to tell me it wasn't God above that sent me you and your sweet love
[ fiddle ]
Almost every night it seems you come walking through my dreams
Precious you and your sweet love
And tonight though we're apart there's a fullness in my heart
Thanks to you and your sweet love
You're the rock I cling to the star I wish upon
The water in my desert the anchor in my storm
Never try to tell me it wasn't God above that sent me you and your sweet love
Railroad steamboat river and cannal 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 she could be till I found out what she did to me
Railroad steamboat...
[ guitar ]
Now I won't cry my life away some other sucker will have to pay
And when he finds that she is gone I bet I'll hear him sing this song
Worry the nights away worry all through the day I worry what's come over you
Worry somehow you've changed worry you seem so strange
I worry what am I gonna do
Your lips keep saying that you care but your heart just isn't there
And your eyes reveal the lies your lips have told
No use pretending nothing's wrong guess I've known it all along
I'm slowly losing you and all that I can do is
Worry the nights away worry all through the day I worry I'm so in love with you
I make believe I make believe that you're here with me yes I do
I make believe I make believe that you'll always be my very own yes I do
I guess I'm all wrapped up in a world of make believe
I make believe I make believe every time the phone rings that it's you yes I do
I make believe every time that there's a knock on the door
I make believe it's you yes I do baby
I guess I'm all wrapped up in a world of make believe
And yet faith can move mountains and behind even the darkest cloud the sun can shine
(If you'll make believe) if you'll just make believe
Then I'll be there with you and all of our dreams will come true
[ Bill Anderson Show ]
The world needs a tune it can hum hmm mmm the world needs a guitar it can strum
The world needs a melody it can sing sing sing sing now let's all sing together
In the sweet bye and bye we shall meet on that beautiful shore together
The world needs a bell it can chime chime chime chime
The world needs a drum to keep the time
The world needs a melody it can sing sing sing sing now let's all sing together
We'll fly away O'Glory we'll fly away together
The world needs a reason to clap it hands
[ clapping ]
The world needs a leader for its band
The world needs a melody that it can sing sing sing sing now let's all sing together
Give us that old time religion give us that old time religion hmm hmm together
In the sweet bye and bye give us that old time religion
In the sweet bye and bye give us that old time religion
[ clapping ]
Won't it ever be morning won't the dawn ever break
Won't it ever quit hurtin' how much can I take
A man could go crazy in the shape that I'm in
I love you and miss you so much won't it ever be morning again
It's barely twelve o'clock but I've already spent a lifetime
Just sittin' here and wishin' it was any time but nighttime
Outside the winds are moanin' low and I just heard it thunder
Your picture on the wall just laughed at me and I just wonder
Won't it ever be morning...
[ Bill ]
Well baby now that you've got your freedom how you're doin' (without)
[ Mary Lou ]
And honey I'm a subject you've got your freedom too how you're doin' (without)
[ Bill ]
Without your arms around me the world's a lonely place
[ Mary Lou ]
Please don't look too close when you're looking to my face
So you see that I've been crying (and crying ain't what freedom's all about)
[ Both ]
I wanna do my thing with you and if I can't do with you I'll do without
[ Bill ]
You know the last time I saw you was that when you came in
And said that you didn't want to live with me anymore
[ Mary Lou ]
Yeah I thought we'd both be better off if we just untight the knot
And losin' the chance
But honey I was in your arms five minutes before I knew I made a big mistake
[ Bill ]
And you just don't know how many nights I've laid awake in a big cold bed
And called your name
And I just wonder now if all the men in town are cravin' your body
Honey what you're doin' (without)
[ Mary Lou ]
And if all the girls are chasin' you what have you been doin' (without)
Without your arms around me...
WISH YOU WERE HERE
Writers Bill Anderson, Skip Ewing, Debbie Moore
RECORDED BY MARK WILLS
They kissed goodbye at the terminal gate.
She said: "You're gonna be late if you don't go."
He held her tight, said: "I'll be alright.
"And I'll call you tonight to let you know."
He bought a postcard, on the front it just said: "Heaven,"
With a picture of the ocean and the beach.
And the simple words he wrote her, said he loved her and they told her,
How he'd hold her if his arms would reach.
Wish you were here.
Wish you could see this place.
Wish you were near.
Wish I could touch your face.
The weather's nice, it's paradise.
It's summertime all year and there's some folks we know.
They say: "Hello."
"I miss you so.
"Wish you were here."
She got a call that night but it wasn't from him.
It didn't sink in right away: "Ma'am the plane went down.
"Our crews have searched the ground,
"No survivors found," she heard him say.
But somehow she got a postcard in the mail that just said: "Heaven,"
With a picture of the ocean and the beach.
And the simple words he wrote her, said he loved her and they told her,
How he'd hold her if his arms would reach.
"Wish you were here.
"Wish I could touch your face.
"The weather's nice, it's paradise.
"It's summertime all year and there's some folks we know.
"They say: 'Hello.'
"I miss you so.
"Wish you were here."
"The weather's nice, it's paradise.
"It's summertime all year and there's some folks we know.
"They say: 'Hello.'
"I miss you so.
"Wish you were here."
Wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine
It cost me my family it cost me my home gave me a dark dirty street to roam
Made me a drifter made me a bum looking for a hand out looking for a chum
To get me wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine
Wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine
[ steel ]
Wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine
It's cold in the country cold in the town
Cold anywhere when you sleep on the ground
I lost all my courage I lost all my pride where oh Lordy can a wine hide
From wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine
WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN
Traditional
I was standing by my window on a cold cold cloudy day
When I saw that hearse come rolling for to carry my mother away
Will the circle be unbroken by and by Lord by and by
There's a better home awaiting in the sky Lord in the sky
I said Mister undertaker under-taker please go slow
Cause the woman that you're taking oh well I hate, hate to see her go
Will the circle be unbroken in the sky Lord in the sky
Got the alarm clock set for seven got the taxi called for nine
Plane takes off at eleven and I gotta be there on time
Told the boss I was going to my mother's told mama I was gonna see a friend
Don't want no one to know I'm slippin' out of town on a wild weekend
Gonna have a wild weekend gonna have a wild weekend
With the pretty little blond haired blue eyed darling gonna have a wild weekend
[ steel ]
Well we might go up to the mountains we might go down to the sea
Somewhere off from the big wide world just my baby and me
Baby's gonna cook me breakfast baby's gonna tuck me in
Baby's gonna warm my cold cold lips with kisses on a wild weekend
Gonna have a wild weekend...
[ steel ]
I guess we'll talk about the future make a lotta plans and stuff
Mostly though we're just gonna sit by the fire and make a lotta love
Every man oughta try it least one time in his life
Just get away on a wild weekend like I'm gonna do with my wife
Gonna have a wild weekend gonna have a wild weekend
You wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you
You asked me not to call you on the phone
But there's something I'm wanting to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of this song
I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one who'll ever love you
And went back to the wild side of life
[ fiddle - steel ]
The glamor of the gay night life has lured you
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
Where you wait to be anybody's baby and forget the truest love you'll ever know
As I lay here by my woman I know I'm back where I belong again
I can't help but think about you though and all the things that might've been
But we used commonsense to work it out we quit before the word got out
We hurt each other stead of hurtin' all the rest
But why'd the last time have to be the best
Why'd the last time have to be the time the time we made our poem rhyme
You were perfect no more no less Lord why'd the last time have to be the best
Today I passed our old meetin' place
You know it's not hittin' like we used to think it was
I guess we were just blinded by passion runnin' with the burnin' love
But we used commonsense...
WHY YOU BEEN GONE SO LONG
(Mickey Newbury)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music »
Every time it rains Lord I run to my window
All I do is ring my hands and moan
Listen to that thunder roll and hear that lonesome wind blow
Tell me baby why you been gone so long
Tell me baby why you been gone so long you been gone so long now
Tell me baby why you been gone so long
Wolf is scratching at my door and I can hear that lonesome wind moan
Tell me baby why you been gone so long
Someone said they thought they saw you roarin' down in Reno
With a big oil man from San Antone
They tell me I'm a fool to pine for you but what do they know
Tell me baby why you been gone so long
Tell me baby why you been...
Tell me baby why you been...
Who is the biggest fool of the two you for loving me or me for loving you
We were both just out on the town both of us just killing time
When almost before I knew it your lips found their way up to mine
And now here we are doing things we both know we shouldn't do
And darling I wonder just which one of us is the biggest fool of the two
Who is the biggest fool of the two you for loving me or me for loving you
Tomorrow we know we've got to forget this somehow
But in your arms tomorrow seems almost forever from now
But baby you've got another the same as I do
And it all just makes me stop and wonder
Which one of us is the biggest fool of the two
Who is the biggest fool of the two you for loving me or me for loving you
SELL A LOTTA BEER
Writers Bill Anderson, Brad Warren, Brett Warren
RECORDED BY THE WARREN BROTHERS
My name ain't up in lights, But I'm a hero in this bar. An' I play four big shows a night, With just me and my guitar. I don't make a lot of money, An' I don't have a lot of gear. I don't sell a lot of records, But I sure sell a lot of beer. Whoa, c'mon now, sing it up. If you wanna hear Bob Dylan, Then I'll play "Like A Rollin' Stone." If you wanna hear Bob Wills, I'll sing "The Rose Of San Antone." I'll even play "Happy Birthday", If that's what you wanna hear. 'Cause I don't sell a lot of records, But I sure sell a lot of beer. So it's hey, hey, what's your favorite song? An' hey, hey, everybody sing along. We're just one big redneck family, Aw, at least while we're in here. 'Cause I don't sell a lot of records But I sure sell a lot of beer. Aw, sell us some beer now. I wake up every Sunday mornin', So I can go to church and pray. But after some of my Saturday nights, Things just don't turn out that way. I think even the Good Lord, he understands, That I'm at that point in my career. They I don't sell a lot of records, (No I don't, tell 'em.) But they sure sell a lot of beer. Hey, hey, what's your favorite song? Hey, hey, everybody sing along. We're just one big redneck family, Aw, at least while we're in here. 'Cause I don't sell a lot of records But I sure sell a lot of beer. I don't sell a lot of records But I sure sell a lot of beer. Yeah, I do.
How many times have you heard someone say
If I had his money I could do things my way
But little they know it's so hard to find one rich man in ten with a satisfied mind
Well once I was waiting in fortune and fame
Everything that I dreamed for turned to start in life's game
Then suddenly it happened I lost every dime
But I'm richer by far with a satisfied mind
[ steel ]
Money won't buy back your youth when you're old
Or a friend when you're lonely or a love that's grown cold
The wealthiest person's a proper at times compared to the man with a satisfied mind
When my life has ended my time has run out
My friends and my loved ones I'll leave there's no doubt
But one thing for certain when it comes my time
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
Satin sheets to lie on satin pillows to cry on and still you're not happy here with me
Big long Cadillacs tailor mades upon your back and still you want me to set you free
We've been through thick and thin together braved the fair and stormy weather
We've had all the hard times you and I
And now that I'm a big success you called today and you confussed
And told me things that make me want to die
You told me there's another man who can give more than I can
And I've given everything that cash will buy
You can buy me a peaceful night with loving arms around me tight
And you're too busy to notice the hurt in my eyes
Oh you better watch out you better not cry
You better not pout I'm tellin' you why Santa Claus is comin' to town
He's a making a list checking in twice gonna find out who's naughty and nice
Santa Claus is comin' to town
He sees you when you're sleeping he knows when you're awake
He knows when you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake
Oh you better watch out...
[ guitar ]
With a little tin horn and a little toy drum a root a toot toot and a rum a tum tum
Santa Claus is comin' to town
Curly hair dolls the cuddle and coo elephants boats and kiddie cars too
Santa Claus is comin' to town
The kids and girls in boyland will have a jubilee
They're gonna build a toyland town all around the Christmas tree
Oh you better watch out...
I was born in Saginaw Michigan I grew up in a house on Saginaw bay
My daddy was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman
Too many nights he came home with too little pay
I loved a girl in Saginaw Michigan the daughter of a wealthy wealthy man
But he called me that son of a Saginaw fisherman
And he said I wadn't good enough to claim his daughter's hand
That's why I'm up here in Alaska lookin' around for gold
Like a crazy fool I'm diggin' in the frozen ground so cold
But with each new day I pray I'll strike it rich and then
I'll go back home and claim my love in Saginaw Michigan
[ ac.guitar ]
I wrote my love in Saginaw Michigan I said honey I'm comin' home please wait for me
You can tell your dad I'm coming back a richer man
I've hit the biggest strike in Klondyke history
Her daddy met the bus in Saginaw Michigan
He gave me a great big party and we drank champagne
Then he said son you're a wise young ambitious man
Don'tcha wanna sell your father-in-law your Klondyke claim
And now he's up there in Alaska diggin' in the cold cold ground
The greedy fool is a lookin' for the gold I never found
It serves him right and no one here is missing him
Least of all the newly weds of Saginaw Michigan
We're the happiest man and wife in Saginaw Michigan
We've had some good we've had some bad but mostly in-between
Used words like love words like hate and words we didn't mean
We've put it down we've patched it up we both have had our say
Divorce ain't black divorce ain't white just a sad ole shade of gray
Neither one of us was always right neither one was always strong
We never put I love you in the place where it belonged
When one was up the other was down and love can't grow that way
Divorce ain't black divorce ain't white just a sad ole shade of gray
You'll find a love to take my place and I'll find me someone
For when it's all been said and done more was said than done
So you take yours and I'll take mine
We'll go our seperate ways
Divorce ain't black divorce ain't white just a sad ole shade of gray
ROOTS AND WINGS
Writers Bill Anderson, Skip Ewing
RECORDED BY JAMES BONAMY AND BY DOUG SUPERNAW
A Mama watched her baby
Fall and bump his head
Taking baby steps across the floor
She could have tried to catch him
But a voice inside her said
In the long run, that'll only hurt him more
But she picked me up and told me that she loved me
And she helped me and she made me feel secure
And I grew to understand what real love means
And what it takes for two hearts to endure
Roots and wings
To my ship you are the lighthouse on the shore
And I'm a kite on your string
Your love is my anchor in the storm
And a part of me stays grounded so the rest of me can fly
But only 'cause you are my Roots and Wings
A daddy kissed his baby
Then he fixed her vail
Took her arm and walked her down the aisle
When the preacher turned and ask him,
"Who gives this child away?"
Well he said "Me", and did his best to smile
Now you call him every weekend and you tell him
That you love him and you're thankful as can be
That his firm hand and his soft heart were a blessing
And the reason you can give the gift to me of
Roots and wings
To my ship you are the lighthouse on the shore
And I'm a kite on your string
Your love is my anchor in the storm
And a part of me stays grounded so the rest of me can fly
But only 'cause you are my Roots and Wings
Roots and wings
To my ship you are the lighthouse on the shore
And I'm a kite on your string
Your love is my anchor in the storm
And a part of me stays grounded so the rest of me can fly
Ever since I met you you run me like a flag up and down the pole
You taught me into choppin' all the wood for your fire
Then kicked me out to sleep in the cold
I gave all the love that I knew how to give I stood faithfully by your side
I thought that you were takin' me straight up to heaven
But Lord it's been a roller coaster ride
And the preacher should've said did you wanna take a roller coaster ride
Cause that's all it's been since the day that you became my blushin' bride
Happiness becomes and then goes like the changin' of the tide
In and out up and down around and around lovin' you's a roller coaster ride
I no sooner think that I've got things the way they oughta be then wham there you go Puttin' down what you we puttin' up with yesterday shiftin' from high gear to low
I'm lookin' kinda gizzy cause you've got me kinda dizzy
And just about to lose my crazy mind
I knew love was often a merry-go-round but with you it's like a roller coaster ride
And the preacher should've said...
Wish that I was on old Rocky Top down in the Tennessee hills
Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top part bear the other part cat
Wild as a mink but sweet as soda pop I still dream about that
Rocky Top you'll always be home sweet home to me
Good ole Rocky Top Rocky Top Tennessee Rocky Top Tennessee
Once two strangers climbed old Rocky Top lookin' for a moonshine still
Straingers ain't come down from Rocky Top reckon they never will
Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top ground's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top get their corn from a jar
Rocky Top you'll always be...
[ steel - banjo ]
I've had years of cramped up city life trapped like a duck in a pen
All I know is it's a pity life can't be simple again
Well I spent the better part of my life on a Mississippi riverboat
I used to be known from coast to coast as the slickest gambler afloat
I've dealt the cards from Minnesota to the harbor at New Orleans
Made a lotta big money on the riverboat loved a lotta pretty riverboat queens
Riverboat riverboat I love your whistle's wail
I wish I was back on the riverboart stead of in the Memphis jail
[ banjo ]
Well a big man got on the riverboat our last time in St Paul
He had a lotta money but his luck went bad and the riverboat won it all
He said I dealt from the bottom of the deck and he pulled a shiny knife
But before that gambler lunged at me my forty-four took his life
Riverboat riverboat...
[ banjo ]
Well they came on the boat and they took me to jail when we got to Tennessee
A gamblin' man has very few friends guess nobody cared for me
Well I might be here for a many long years but if I ever get out
I'm gonna head straight for that levee and get me a riverboat headin' south
Children play ring around a rosie laugh and sing like you always do
Children play ring around a rosie mommy will be home in a day or two
Remember the story I read to you when I tucked you in last night
About the pretty princess who loved the party life
Well that's the way that mommy is but she'll be home after while
So dry your tears my little ones and give your daddy a smile
Children play ring around a rosie...
Mommy's away at the castle now where party people go
She's likely dancing with the king her pretty eyes aglow
But she'll be home on Sunday dears to go to church with us
We'll tell her not to leave again cause we love her so much
If you don't want me baby if you ain't satisfied
If you don't care get on your horse and ride ride ride
Since you got on your high horse new fancy friends you've found
You don't even notice me you don't look that for down
If you don't want me baby...
[ steel ]
You talked about me honey you tried to tear me down
But while you're throwin' dirt at me you're only losin' ground
If you don't want me baby...
[ piano ]
I'll have your second fiddle returned to you today
Cause baby that's one instrument I never learned to play
If you don't want me baby...
There was justice in his sixgun there was magic in his name
And I always tried to be him when we played our cwboy games
I stood in line to see him ride across our small town screen
And in my mind's eye I rode with him in every scene
And he would ride off in the sunset with that friendly western smile
Ride off in the sunset no goodbyes just so long for awhile
I saw him on a talk show not too many years ago
His voice was kinda shaky and his hair was white as snow
He didn't say goodnight folks just waved his hat up in the air
And I told my young son that's my childhood hero there
He would ride off in the sunset...
I read the evening paper out in my backyard yesterday
It said that he lay dyin' in a rest home in LA
I looked out toward the sunset and I saw a golden screen
And I swear I saw him as he played out his final scene
(Restless restless)
[ piano ]
I slept last night in the bus depot in Pittsburg
Tonight I walk the streets of Baltimore
Ain't no telling where I'll be tomorrow my baby don't care and I don't anymore
I've grown restless (like the wind that blows) restless (like nobody knows)
I'm running from the one I'm longing for
Oh I'm restless (and I can't stand still) restless (and I never will)
My baby don't care and I don't anymore (restless restless)
[ piano ]
My baby fell in love with a man in Frisco
Left me standing in the midnight freezing cold
I took a train back east to West Virginia
But there ain't no taking this aching out of my soul
It's funny but I don't remember one thing you and I ever fought about
I know you used to look at me with the coldest eyes
And speak to me with the sharpest tongue
But even that's hazy now you know what I do remember
The warnth of your lips when we'd kiss
And make up the softness of your body
When you'd snuggle up close to me and say baby I'm sorry
And I'm lyin' here tonight remembering the good
Needing to hold you wishing I could
Listening to your laughter echo through my mind
Forgetting the bad times remembering the good
I thought I'd never forget how the door sounded
When you used to slam it and walk out but I have forgotten
And yet I can almost hum the tune it played
When you opened it and come back in
Remember me when the candle lights are gleaming
I want to know you still remember me
The sweetest songs belong to lovers in the gloaming
The sweetest days are the days that used to be
The saddest words I've ever heard were words of parting
When you said sweetheart remember me
Remember me when the candle lights are gleaming
Remember me at the close of a long long day
It would be so sweet when all alone I'm dreaming just to know you still remember me
[ steel ]
You told me once that you'd be mine alone forever
And I was yours till the end of eternity
But all those vows are broken now and we will never be the same except in memory
Remember me when the candle lights...
We couldn't call it love cause it really wasn't love anymore
Yet we couldn't call it hate cause there's no way to hate
Someone you've loved so much before
We couldn't call it livin' cause it wasn't still alive
We couldn't call it dead cause it refused to die
We ran out of anything to call it so we called it quits
Quits quits we called it quits it sounds like the easy way out but oh when it hits
The longer you live with someone you can't live with the harder it gets
We called it magic then we called it tragic finally we called it quits
It's always been harder to fall out of love than fall in
I don't know where I'm goin' but I doubt if I'll ever forget where I've been
We couldn't call it happy though it was for a while
We couldn't call it sad cause it taught us both to smile
For luck for a better word to call it we called it quits
Quits quits we called it quits it sounds like the easy way out but oh when it hits
The longer you live with someone you can't live with the harder it gets
We called it lovely then we called it lonely finally we called it quits
Think of your fellow man lend him a helping hand put a little love in your heart
You see it's gettin' late oh please don't hesitate put a little love in your heart
And the world will be a better place and the world will be a better place
For you for you and me and me you just wait you just wait and see and see
Another day goes by and still the children cry put a little love in your heart
If you want the world to know we won't let hatred grow put a little love in your heart
And the world will be a better place...
Take a good look around and if you're looking down put a little love in your heart
I hope when you decide on just who'll be your guide put a little love in your heart
And the world will be a better place...
Put a little love in your heart each and every day
Put a little love in your heart everybody
I know what you do and it drives me insane no matter what I do you never will change
You just keep denying this thing that you do
But someday someway I'll have proof that it's true
I know it's been goin' on now for quite a few years
And many's the time that it's nearly driven me to tears
I can't sleep at night but you don't seem to care
I'm growin' old young you've put grey in my hair
I've tried talkin' to ye but you just turned away
You won't even listen to what I've got to say
I've known for a long time now that I had to find me a way
To catch you in action so I schemed night and day
I thought and I thought and I devised me a plan
I knew I had to confront you with the proof in my hand
So I took a recorder and I placed it under your bed
And then I placed the microphone right at your head
And then I recorded every sound that you made that night
Sit down cause I'm gonna play it for ye as proof that I was right
When you hear this there'll never be any doubt anymore
[ Bill ]
Precious mem'ries unseen angels sent from somewhere to my soul
How they linger ever near me as the sacred past unfolds
Precious mem'ries how they linger how they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight precious sacred scenes unfold
[ piano ]
Precious father loving mother fly across the lonely years
And the old home scenes of my childhood in fond memory appear
[ Mary Lou Turner ]
I knew this morning as soon as the phone rang that crazy woman had hurt you again
That's why I told you to come on over
The coffee is warm so are the arms that you fit so nicely in
Poor Sweet Baby Poor Sweet Baby did my baby spend another sleepless night
Poor Sweet Baby come to mama
Let Mama love your pain away and make everything alright
If she don't love you why don't she let a real woman light your fire
Your too big a boy to go to bed hungry and the way that I need you
I could feed you anything your heart desires
Poor Sweet baby Poor Sweet Baby did my baby spend another sleepless night
Poor Sweet Baby Come to mama
You know I don't think much about her anymore seldom if ever does she cross my mind
Yesterday's gone Lord it's better forgotten
Like the poison red berries to die on the vine
This mornin' at dawn I pulled into town
Had some coffee and talked with some old friends of mine
Laughing at all the good times they remember and then I remembered the time
I can still see those bright lights back in Dallas
As yesterday moves like a dream through my mind
I really didn't suppose that I'd never forget her and you know it took such a long time
But I don't think much about her no more seldom if ever does she cross my mind
Yesterday's gone it's better forgotten
There's a whole lotta people lookin' down their noses at me
Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family
I guess I learned to take it for most of the year
But every December when Christmas drew near
And all the other families were out spreadin' cheer we was sittin' home being po' folks
Our Christmas shopping was thumblin' through the new catalog
Lookin' and a wishin' and a wantin' everything we saw
Little toy trains and little toy boats and sister kept lookin' at the little girl's coats
We all sat down and wrote Santa a note but Santa don't come to see po' folks
And we wadn't nothing but po' folks
Po' folks livin' way in the country we never heard the jingle of the jingle bells
Ho ho ho we was po po po' and if we had Christmas well we just made it ourselves
Daddy took a hatchet and daddy chopped a pine tree down
The only decorations were the ones we made or found
Brother saw some holly in the rich men's yard he picked it up fast and ran home hard
And mama knew he stole it but bless her heart Christmas ain't easy on po' folks
And it ain't no time for whipping po' folks
[ dobro ]
I remember one Christmas it was blowing and a snowing mean
Wadn't nothing in the kitchen but a few of mama's homecanned beans
Some ladies from the church brought a basket of food
Mama kinda smiled and she said that's good
But why don't you all just take it to the folks that live down the road
They ain't got as much as we do huh why they're just po' folks
She only kept a chicken and enough to make some homemade bread
But you'd've thought we was feastin' from the blessings that my daddy said
And later when kids was tucked in tight
And the fire wadn't nothin' but a flickering light
You oughta heard my mama sing Silent Night
Cause that's what you do when you're po' folks and we wadn't nothin' but po' folks
Christmas time when you're po' folks
The Lord sure must've loved us po' folks ha ha he made a passel of us
Everybody at my house was po' folks why most of the time we was po'
In the world's mighty gallery of pictures hang the scenes that're painted from life
There hang pictures of love and of passion and there's pictures of sorrow and strife
There hang pictures of youth and of beauty of old age and a blushing young bride
But the saddest of all that hang on the wall are the pictures from life's other side
Just a picture from life's other side someone has fell by the way
A life has gone out with the tide that might have been happy some day
There's a poor old mother at home who's watching and waiting alone
Just longing to hear from a loved one so dear it's a picture from life's other side
Now the first scene is that of a gambler who's lost all his money at play
And he reaches down and takes his dead mother's ring from her finger
The one that she wore long ago on her wedding day
It's his last earthly treasure but he stakes it
Then bows his head that his shame he might hide
When they lifted his head they found he was dead
It's just a picture from life's other side
Now the last scene is that by the river of a heartbroken mother and babe
As the harbor lights shine and they shiver on an outcast whom that no one can save
And yet she was once a true woman she was somebody's darling and pride
She's still the angel that I knew before the only difference now is she's mine
In an apron or a nightgown or the wedding dress she wore
She's a perfect angel all the time
You know it's funny how when you first meet a girl
And start likin' her you always see her at her best
All made up her hair just right dressed nicely
And you just assume she's like that 24 hours a day
Then when you get married it's face-cream and body-pins and hair-rollers at night
Makeup eyelashes hairspray in the mornin'
Soapsuds floorwax and bacon grease through the day
And then you stop and think about it
And she's really goin' through all the stuff just for you
And knowin' that makes her all the more beautiful
PEEL ME A NANNER
Writer Bill Anderson
RECORDED BY ROY DRUSKY
There I was in all of my innocence lovin' you with all of my might
Come to find out I didn't have any cent you had a different darlin' every night
Peel me a manner toss me a peanut I'll come swinging from a coconut tree
Peel me a manner toss me a peanut you sure made a monkey out of me
I gave you kisses and I gave you lovin' tried to please your every little whim
At all I laid it up to a big bad nothin' last night you uped and ran away with him
Peel me a manner...
Peel me a manner...
May the fruit of my toil be yours love may the food from my soil be yours love
And from this moment on may a love true and strong that lives on and on be yours love
May the sons that I raise be yours love may the comforts I praise be yours love
If I ever get weak may the love words I speak and the arms that I seek be yours love
May the Lord's shining grace be yours love may the happiest face be yours love
