(Merle Travis - Tex Williams)
Now, I'm a fellow with a heart of gold
With the ways of a gentleman I've been told
A kind of a guy that wouldn't even harm a flea
But if me and a certain character met
That guy that invented the cigarette
I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree.
That ain't 'cause I don't smoke myself
And I don't reckon they'll injure your health
I've smoked 'em all my life and I ain't dead yet
But nicotine slaves are all the same
At a pheasant party or a poker game
Everythin's gotta stop when they have that cigarette.
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette.
Now at a game of chance the other night
Ol' Dame Forson wasn't doin' me right
Them kings and queens just kept on comin' 'round
Well, I got a full and I bet it high
But my plug didn't work on a certain guy
He just kept a raisin' and a layin' that money down.
Now he'd raise me and I'd raise him
I sweated blood I had to sink or swim
He finally called and he didn't raise the bet
I said ace's full pal how about you
He said, "I'll tell you in a minute or two
But I just gotta have another cigarette."
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette.
--- Instrumental ---
Now the other night I had a date
With the cutest gal in the fifty states
A highbred uptown social little dame
She said she loved me and it seemed to me
That things were like they oughta be
And hand in hand we strolled down Lover's Lane.
She was, oh, so far from a chunk of ice
And our smoochin' party was a goin' real nice
So help me and I think I'd've been there yet
But I give her a hug and a little squeeze
And she said Jim excuse me please
But I just gotta have another cigarette.
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette.
Gotta have another cigarette
Y'all keep pickin' if you want to but I'm gonna light one up
Hello Mr Blues it's me again
Spendin' nights alone no love to call my own
Remember me Mr Blue I've been here before
My heart's been kicked around can't take much more
Don't tell me Mr Blues that she's to blame
I don't care who are wright or wrong
I just know that she's the one for me
And she's gone Mr Blues she's gone
[ fiddle ]
You only think of me when you're lonely after all the laughter's been and gone
When streets are filled with neon shadows only I'm a shoulder you come crying on
Each time I take you back I know again you'll hurt me so
Still this heart of mine just lets you come and go
You only think of me when you're lonely but I'm lonely thinkin' bout you all the time
Each time I take you back I know again you'll hurt me so
Still this heart of mine just lets you come and go why I don't know
There you are a standing at the window again
I know there's something tuggin' at your soul
You look like you could run a hole right to the wind
You're burning up with desire to go
Your touch has a finger of the cold north wind oh I know it's all over goodbye
But I know that you don't have the strenght to leave alone
So who put the leaving in your eyes
Who planted this satisfaction in your mind
Who gave you the strenght to say goodbye
Who put that restless feeling in your soul who put the leaving in your eyes
[ guitar ]
For so long we've been headed down a oneway street we've both lost all desire to try
But I know that you ain't got the strenght to leave yourself
So who put the leaving in your eyes
Who planted this satisfaction in your mind...
There was a time when I thought of no other and we sang our own love's refrain
Well our hearts beat as one as we had our fun but time changes everything
When you left me my poor heart was broken and our romance did seem all in vain
But the dark cloud have gone there's blue skies again cause time changes everything
Well time has passed then I've forgot you mother nature does wonderful things
Well I guess now that it's true for me and for you time changes everything
You can change the name of an old song arearrange it and make it swing
Too many times you've broken my heart too many times you said we must part
Each time you left me heart broken and then
Each time you'd say let's be sweethearts again
But too many times you sent me away this time's the last time and this time I'll stay
For if we'd never part you'll keep breaking my heart
And you've done it too many times
Yeah too many times you sent me away...
I'd walk out on all my friends to get to you
If I lose them all for your love I'll do that too
Guess they mean well when they tell me what to do
But they don't know how far I'd go to get to you
Burning bridges behind me to get to you breaking all ties that bind me to get to you
I hold your love far above what I go through
I'd give all I own for a stepping stone to get to you
If it's the last thing I do I'll get to you
Because I know just how much you want me to
You're the only thing that can bring my world in view
Every breath I take every move I make is to get to you
Dear daughter, I tiptoed in your room tonight and I looked down at
you smilin' in your sleep. You were so lovely my heart nearly broke;
and I thought how much like Sleeping Beauty a little girl is. When I
tuck you in at night I never know how old you'll be when you wake. One
evening you crawl on your dad's lap and throw your arms around his neck,
the next morning you might be much too grown up for that sort of thing.
You're so quickly approaching the awkward age, too young to drive the
car and yet too old to be carried in the house half asleep on daddy's
shoulder. I have a secret that I've never told you, Sleeping Beauty,
you're going on a very exciting trip. You'll travel from yesterday all
the way to tomorrow. It's a rapid journey and you'll travel light,
leaving behind you - measles, mumps, freckles, bumps, bubble gum and me.
I promise not to feel too hurt when you discover that the world is more
important than your daddy's lap. Yesterday you were blue jeans and pig tails,
the neighborhood's best tree climber. Tomorrow you'll be blue organdy and
pony tails and you'll view the world from a loftier perch - a pair of high
heel shoes.
Yesterday you could mend a doll's broken leg with a hug; tomorrow you'll
be able to break a young man's heart with a kiss. Humh! Humh! Yesterday you
could get lost one aisle away from me at a supermarket - now I have to worry
about losing you down another aisle to some strange young man. You see,
just at the point where you're growing pains stop, mine begins. Yesterday
you were kind of a pain in the neck when you were around, tomorrow you'll
be an ache in my heart when your not.
Tomorrow you'll lay aside your jump rope and tie up the telephone lines
and that little boy that used to push you in the mud; well, he'll fight to
sit out a dance with you. The clock is countin' the minutes for you and the
sky upstairs is savin' its' brighest stars; - and the sun is waitin' with
its' shiniest day.
Oh I, I can't expect you to live in a doll house forever. Sooner or later,
the butterfly sheds it's cocoon and the smallest bird must try its wings.
But when you grow up and out of my arms; when you finally get too big for my
shirts, I'll still recall how you used to scatter dust and dolls and partially
through ev'ry room in the house; but you spread sunshine too. The dust is
settled, your mom picked up the dolls; - but the sunshine will always fill
the corners of our hearts.
So, here I am talking in your sleep, because, well if you saw this look on
my face, you'd laugh and if I spoke with this lump in my throat, I'd cry.
Yea! honey when I looked at you tonight you were a Sleeping Beauty. So, I
tiptoed over and I kissed you - you didn't wake up, I knew you wouldn't.
According to the legend only the handsome young prince can open your eyes
and I'm just the father of the future bride.
So you sleep on pretty thing, tomorrow you'll wake and you'll be a young
lady and you won't even realize that you've changed courses in the middle
of a dream. But you might notice a little change in me; I'll look a little
different somehow. A little sadder, a little wiser, but a whole lot richer.
We were so happy when love lingered on back in our sweet used to be
But now it's all over and you were gone leaving a sad memory
And there's tears on my pillow each morning I cry when I dream about you
When I should be sleeping I just lay there weeping wondering if you're weeping too
I'm trying so hard to forget you but that's not so easy to do
With these tears on my pillow each morning tears that I've shed over you
Tears on my pillow each morning...
There shall be showers of blessing this is a promise of love
There shall be seasons refreshing sent from the Saviour above
Showers of blessing showers of blessing we need
Mercy drops round us are falling but for the showers we plead
There shall be showers of blessing precious reviving again
Over the hills and the valleys sound of abandons of rain
Showers of blessing showers of blessing we need...
There shall be showers of blessing oh but today they might fall
Now as to God reconfesing now as on Jesus we call
There goes my last reason for living
When you loved me I was richer than a king
Now you're gone and life is such an empty thing
The tears I try so hard to hide won't bring you back to me
And there goes my last reason for living
If pride hadn't come to rule the world you live in
And take away the meaning of forgivin'
You would have heard me say as you turned to walk away
There goes my last reason for living
Now I know I was a fool to be untrue all I want is just to make it up to you
But time's run out and I'm about to lose this someone new
And there goes my last reason for living
If pride hadn't come...
When my way growith draer precious Lord linger near when my life is almost gone
Hear my cry hear my call hold my hand last I fall
Take my hand precious Lord lead me home
Precious Lord take my hand lead me on let me stand I am tired I am weak I am worn
Through the storm through the night lead me on to the light
Take my hand precious Lord lead me home
[ organ ]
When my work is all done and my race here is run
Let me see by the light Thou has shone
That there city's so bright where the land is the light
Take my hand precious Lord lead me home
In my arms there's someone new I give my goodnight kisses to
But it's still the same old you in my heart
No other lips no other touch gets to me baby half as much
Cause it's still the same old you in my heart
I thought that I would find a newer truer love
But I might as well stop before I start
Although I try oh how I try to kiss your memory goodbye
It's still the same old you in my heart
I thought that I...
(Well it's not my sister and it's not my brother but it's me Lord
Well it's not my father and it's not my mother but it's me Lord)
Mhm it's me it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
It's me it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
Not my sister but it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
Not my brother but it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
(Well it's not my uncle and it's not my cousin but it's me Lord
Well it's not my grandma and it's not my grandpa but it's me Lord
It's me it's me oh Lord it's me it's me oh Lord
It's me it's me oh Lord...
Not my father but it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
(Not my mother) oh it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
Oh well it's not my doctor and it's not my lawyer it's just me Lord (it's me oh Lord)
And it's not my butcher and it's not my baker it's me Lord (it's me oh Lord)
It's me it's me oh Lord...
On an old far house veranda there sat Silas and Marinda dreamin' of the days gone by
He said deary don't be weary you're always bright and cheery
Now a tear did dim your eye
She said they're not tears of sadness Silas they are tears of gladness
It was fifty years ago the day we wed
Then the old man's dim eyes brighten and his old heart it lighten
As he turned to her and said
Put on your old grey bonnet with all the blue ribbons on it
While I hitch all dovin' to the shade
Through those fields of clover you'll ride up to Dover on our golden wedding day
Put on your old grey bonnet...
Put on your old grey bonnet...
I note that someday you'd want me to want you
When I'm in love with somebody else
You expect me to be true and to keep on loving you
Though I'm feeling blue.
You'd think I can't forget you
Until 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
And then I won't won't want you.
Until someday you'll want me to want you
When I'm strong for somebody new
Although you don't want me now
I'll get along somehow
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair.
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down.
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town.
It wasn't me that started that ol' crazy Asian war.
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore.
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be.
Oh Ruby, I still need some company.
It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age
Ruby I realize.
But it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town.
She's leaving now, 'cause I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before.
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground.
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town.
Oh Shenandoah I long to see you away you rolling river
Shenandoah I long to see you away I'm bound to way across the wide Missouri
Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter away you rolling river
Shenandoah I'll cross your waters away I'm bound to way across the wide Missouri
Cross the wide Missouri
[ harmonica ]
(Oh Shenandoah I'm gonna leave you away you rolling river
Oh Shenandoah I long to see you away I'm bound to way across the wide Missouri
Cross the wide Missouri)
Farewell my love I'm gonna leave you away you rolling river
Shenandoah I not deceive you away I'm bound to way across the wide Missouri
Wish that I was on old Rocky Top down in the Tennessee hills
Cause there ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top half bear the other part cat
Wild as a mink but sweet as a soda pop and 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
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top reckon they never will
Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top dirt'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...
[ banjo - harmonica ]
Rocky Top you'll always be...
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I rang her number by mistake today she thinks I still care
Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of her lingers everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be she thinks I still care
But if she's happy thinking I still need her then let that silly notion bring her cheer
But how could she ever be so foolish oh where could she get such an idea
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just bacause I saw her then went all to pieces she thinks I still care
Here's a song I love to sing it's about the girl that wears my ring
And even though I'm tempted I know she'll make sure that I get everything
Cause when I'm cold I know she's warm and she warm me in her arms
And when I'm sad she makes me glad and she's my shelter from the storm
She's my song when I feel like singing and she swings when I feel like swinging
I don't know what she's doin' right but it makes me come home at night
And when I'm home she makes sure I'm never alone
And that's why I keep singing my song
Yeah and when I'm home...
Shutters and boards cover the windows of the house where we used to live
All I have left is a heart full of sorrow since she said she'd never forgive
The house that we've built was once filled with laughter
But I changed that laughter to tears
And now I live in a world without sunshine
Oh how I wish you were here
Shutters and boards cover the windows...
Last night I dreamed that you came to our house
To take an old book from the shelf
If you'll open the shutters I'll tear down the boards
Cause I drove every nail by myself
Shutters and boards cover the windows...
One more time
Shutters and boards cover the windows...
Oh it don't worked out the way that I planned it's over but it's so hard to understand
So I read the letters that you wrote to me I read 'em and weep read 'em and weep
Mem'ries keep coming back with each tender lie
Oh why why do I read 'em time after time
Tears keep on falling till I can hardly see I read 'em and weep read 'em and weep
They all start my dearest darling and end if you recall
With yours alone forever and then you seal them all
With kisses oh why should leave these mem'ries behind
Burn 'em and try to get you out of my mind
All the letters remind me all that used to be I read 'em and weep read 'em and weep
Everybody knows now everybody knows
Well you have made no secret of your new love affair
He buys you pretty presents and he takes you everywhere
You seen him all the places where you and I once went
You sit and hold each other's hand in front of all our friends
Now everybody knows now everybody knows why my heart cries
There's no need to tell you you're too in love to see
Everything I've told you baby you thought was jealousy
But if he ever breaks your heart the same as you broke mine
Just come on running back to me you're welcome any old time
Cause everybody knows yeah everybody knows why my heart cries
When life seems full of clouds and rain and I am filled with not but pain
Who soothes my thumpin' bumpin' brain nobody
When winter come with snow and sleet me with hunger and cold feet
Who says here's too bit more to eat nobody
I ain't never done nothin' to nobody and I ain't never got nothin' from nobody no time
And until I get some from somebody sometime
I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody no time
Well I'm tyrin' hard and schemin' a plan to do the very best I can
Who says look at that handsome man nobody
Well all day long things go a mess and I go home to find some bliss
Who's waitin' there with a lovin' kiss nobody
I ain't never done nothin'...
Well that nine pound hammer is a little too heavy
For my size honey for my size
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when the wheels won't roll
Well it's a long way to Harlem it's a long way to Hazzard
Just to get a little brew my friend get a little brew
And that nine pound hammer it done killed John Henry
It ain't a gonna kill me no siree it ain't gonna kill me
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when the wheels won't roll
I'm goin' on that mountain I'm gonna see my baby
And I ain't comin' back no siree I ain't comin' back
And when I'm long gone well you can make my tombstone
Out of number nine coal my friend number nine coal
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when the wheels won't go
Yeah roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when them wheels won't go
In the evening
After the sun goes down
In the evening
After the sun goes down
The womens all tell me
I'm the sweetest man in town
Now I've got a little woman
She's got money, marbles and chalk
She bought me a fine Cadillac, man
That's why I don't have to walk
In the evening
After the sun goes down
The womens all tell me
I'm the sweetest man in town
I've got a little woman
She's just as sweet as she can be
I wants the whole world to know
She's alright with me
When in the evening
After the sun goes down
The womens all tell me
(Traditional)
I am weak but Thou art strong
Jesus keep me from all wrong
I'll be satisfied as long
As I walk, let me walk close to Thee.
Just a closer walk with Thee
Grant it Jesus is my plea
Daily walking close to Thee
Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.
In this world with toil and snare
If I falter Lord who will care
Who will all my burdens bear
None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee.
Just a closer walk with Thee
Grant it Jesus is my plea
Daily walking close to Thee
I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
The humming of the drivers was my lullaby
And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry
I got the freight train blues lawdy lawdy lawdy
Got them in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes
And when the whistle blows I gotta go
Oh lawdy I guess I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues
[ guitar - fiddle - steel ]
Now my pappy was a fireman and my mammy dear
Was the only daughter of an engineer
My sweetie is a brakeman and it ain't no joke
It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke
I've laid around and played around this old town too long
Summer's almost gone yes winter's comin' on
I've laid around and played around this old town too long
And I feel like I gotta travel on
Well papa writes to Johnny but Johnny can't come home
Johnny can't come home no Johnny can't come home
Papa writes to Johnny but Johnny can't come home
Cause he's been on the chain gang too long
High sheriff and police ridin' after me ridin' after me yes comin' after me
High sheriff and police they're comin' after me and I feel like I've gotta travel on
I've laid around and played around...
Well I wanna see my honey and I wanna see her bad
Wanna see her bad oh wanna see her bad
I wanna see my honey wanna see her bad she's the best gal this poor boy ever had
I've laid around and played around...
Oh how many arms have held you
And hated to let you go
How many, oh how many, I wonder
But I really don't want, I don't wanna know
Oh how many lips have kissed you
And set, set your soul aglow, yes they did
How many, oh how many, I wonder, yes I do
But I really don't want to know
So always make, make me wonder
And always make, make me guess
And even, you know even if I ask you
Oh darling oh don't you, don't confess
Just let it, let it remain your secret
Oh for darling, darling I love you so
No wonder, yeah no wonder, I wonder
Do you love me do you want me do you feel the way I do
Are you yearning yearning burning burning I am too
Do you lay awake and think about me all night through
Then you'll know just how I'm feeling cause you feel the way I do
Do you love me love me love me like I'm loving you
Do you feel each day as if you're walking opon a cloud
Does your heart beat fast and make you sing out loud
Are you gettin' butterflies at just thought of me
Then you'll know just how I feel I love you just as much you see
Do you love me love me love me like I'm loving you
[ guitar ]
If it's true that love is blind and I can't see a thing
Got that crazy kind of feeling only love can bring
Can't help thinking out you baby all the time
And I won't be satisfied until I've made you mine
Do you love me love me love me like I'm loving you
The first thing every morning and the last thing every night
I think of you and all the things I say and do
If only you were here to whisper sweet things to
I tell you how much I love you how I'm longing to hold you tight
The first thing every morning and the last thing every night
Oh I tell you how much I love you...
(Arthur Kent - Sylvia Dee)
Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don't they know it's the end of the world
'Cause you don't love me anymore.
Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love.
I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything's the same as it was
I can't understand, no, I can't understand
Why life goes on the way it does.
Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
As I look at the letters that you wrote to me
It is you that I am thinking of
As I read the lines that to me were so sweet
I remember our faded love
I miss you darling more and more every day
As heaven would miss all the stars above
With every heartbeat I still think of you
And remember our faded love
As I think of the past and all the pleasure we've had
As I watch the mating of the dove
It was in the springtime that you said goodbye
I remember our faded love
I miss you darling more and more every day...
Bye bye baby bye bye what pleasure it gives you when I cry
The love that I borrowed brought nothing but sorrow so bye bye baby bye bye
This time my fond time brought tears time
Though every moment's of lovely and dear time
When love is one sided somehow you can't hide it bye bye baby bye bye
No more red wine and soft lights gone now those happy and gay nights
Once more I'll kiss you then oh how I'll miss you bye bye baby bye bye
Go now quickly from my sake don't look back or you might see the heartache
(People laugh and love and cry) I'm still missing you
The paper boy still comes around just like he used to do
But he's a little taller now and I'm still missing you
The leaves are piled against the fence the sky is hazy blue
There's talk about an early snow and I'm still missing you I'm still missing you
The swirlin' wind of time brings many changes
But it's funny they only blow across the surface of my heart
They can never touch the memory I have of you that's burried so deep inside me
Dick and Jane came by today their baby's almost due
Somewhere the sun is shining somewhere the songbirds dwell
Hush then your sad repining God lives and all is well
Somewhere somewhere beautiful isle of somewhere
Land of the truth where we live anew beautiful isle of somewhere
Somewhere the load is lifted close by an open gate
Somewhere the clouds are rifted somewhere the angels wait
Some people say a man is made outta mud.
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood.
Muscle and blood, skin and bones;
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong.
You load sixteen tons an' what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St Peter don't you call me cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store.
Well, I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine.
I picked up a shovel, an' I walked out to the mine.
I loaded sixteen tons of Number 9 coal,
An' the store boss said: "Well, bless my soul."
You load sixteen tons an' what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St Peter don't you call me cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store.
Well, I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain.
Fightin' an' trouble was my middle name.
I was raised in the canebreak by an old mama lion,
Can't no high-toned woman makes me walk the line.
You load sixteen tons an' what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St Peter don't you call me cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store.
Well, if you see me comin', better step aside.
A lotta men didn't, an' a lotta men died.
One fist of iron, the other of steel.
If the right one don't get you, then the left one will.
You load sixteen tons an' what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St Peter don't you call me cause I can't go:
Here comes more tears to cry Here comes more heartaches by
Here comes my baby back again
Here comes more misery here comes old memory
Here comes my baby back again
My arms are open wide to let more hurt inside
Here comes my baby back again
He's sorry once again once more I'll understand
Here comes my baby back again
[ strings ]
Here comes my baby back again
My arms are open wide...
Here comes my baby back again
Hello there neighbor how do you do
There's something I'd like to say of you
You're from my own land my sunny homeland tell me is it true
Are you from Dixie I said from Dixie
Where the fields of cotton beckon to me
Hello how do you feel I'm glad to see you
Here's the friends I waited to see
If you're from Alabama Tennessee or Caroline
Anyplace below that Mason Dixon line
Then you're from Dixie hurray for Dixie cause I'm from Dixie too
Don't your conscience ever bother you everytime you hear my name
Well you should go somewhere hide your face and hang your head in shame
Yes someone came along and took my place and you gave me all the blame
You should go somewhere and hide your little face and hang your head in shame
[ fiddle ]
Yes someone came along and took my place and you gave me all the blame
Oh you should go somewhere and hide your little face and hang your head in shame
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 to your heart
How can I go on living
While 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?
A harvest of sunshine a sky full of blue
A haystack of happiness and buckets of dreams come true
And all the things in whole the world all that I wish for you
It's just a harvest of sunshine and a sky full of blue
(A harvest) a harvest (of sunshine) nothing but sunshine (and a sky full of blue)
And a great big sky full of blue
A haystack of happiness and buckets of dreams come true
Hey look and see though you may be one of one hundred and two
You've got a harvest of sunshine and a sky full of blue
[ rh.banjo ]
Talk to me baby tell me what's on your mind please tell me baby if you'd be so kind
To tell me your problems and what I can do
To show you baby that I'm so in love with you
All yesterday's kisses still on your mind of a love that used to be
I know that my lips they're not his lips but they can be your lips
If you just hold to me
Just talk to me baby tell me what I can do
To show you baby that I'm so in love with you
There's a tiny drop of sadness in the corner of your eye
Even though I know you'd never let me see you cry
One thing's pretty certain I'm not doin' all that hurtin'
There's a tiny drop of sadness in your eye
We had a quarrel this evening now you tell me you're leaving
But do you really wanna go if you ask me I say no
Cause there's a tiny drop of sadness in your eye
There's a tiny drop...
[ ac.guitar ]
Maybe I was always too demanding but were you really always understanding
If we both would give our best love would take care of the rest
And drive that tiny drop of sadness from your eye
There's a tiny drop...
Oh when I'm lonely I think of someone someone I call Sweet Misery
In her arms I was in heaven but heaven wasn't meant for me
Oh I still love her oh but I lost her ah when she walked out the hurt walked in
Now our love's gone just like an old song that no one ever wants to hear again
I count heartaches that I think fool makes and I think about my Sweet Misery
To my sorrow each new tomorrow proves there's never been a bigger fool than me
Yeah cause in her arms I was in heaven but heaven wasn't meant for me
Oh when I'm lonely I think about someone someone I call Sweet Misery
Yeah someone I call Sweet Misery yeah someone I call Sweet Misery
You called me Country Jimmy the night you walked away
With one who promised you a life of joy
You'd thought my life's too simple and your was much too gay
To spend that livin' with a country boy
While you're livin' in the city with riches at your door
Is this your love is this your kind of joy
How do you find there's something missin' does your heart cry out for more
Do you sometimes miss your country boy
[ guitar ]
I'm writing you this letter I write you every day
I hope that you recieved the ones before
But I've heard not one word from you and every day I pray
That you will not forget your country boy
Well it's time to end this letter the light of dawn is near
A lonely night has passed but there'll be more
Just one thing more and closing for all the world to hear
Be honest with me dear whatever you do
Remember you're mine dear so always be true
Where ever 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 dream about you
Oh you are my darling you're all that I see
If you really love me be honest with me
Some day I'll return dear kinda make you my own
And how I will yearn dear when I'm all alone
But I never forget dear your sweet memory
Back home again in Indiana oh it seems that I can see
That gleaming candlelight still burning bright
Through the sycamores for me
That new mown hay sends all its fragrance
From the fields I used to roam
Oh I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash
Then I long for my Indiana home
Back home again in Indiana oh it seems that I can see
That gleaming candlelight still flickering bright
Through the sycamores for me
Lotsa mown hay sends all its fragrance
From the fields I used to roam
When I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash
