1.Before I Met You
I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time that was before I
met you
I never saw one that I wanted for mine that was before I met you
I thought I was swinging the world by the tail I thought I could
never be blue
I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved but that
was before I
met you
I thought I'd stay single and always be free but that was before
I met you
And I said that no sweet thing could ever hold me but that was
before I met you
I thought I was swinging...
I thought I was swinging...
That was before I met you
2.Better Move It On Home
I've been sittin' here looking at the clock big daddy
allready you're a half hour late.
I've been pulling back the curtains, peeping out the window
wish you wouldn't make me wait
You better move it on home, boy, you better move it on home.
I've been sittin' here listening to the jukebox playing
and forgettin' where I ought to be.
Zipping on a cool one having me some good fun
Time got away from me.
I better move it on home, I better move it on home.
Better spin them wheels and make it on back
to heaven on earth and lovers' at
like a rolling stone, you better move it on home.
(bridge)
I've been here cooking you a nice hot supper
and you can't even eat it on time
heating up the meat loaf and stiring up the gravy
is kind a messing up my mind
You better move it on home boy, you better move it on home.
I've been speeding through the traffic, passing everyone
I remember what I forgot.
Stepping on the gas and driving kind of fast
hoping I wont get stopped.
Better move it on home, better move it on home.
(2x)
She： Better move it on home, boy right on this time or I'm gonna
shake it.
He： I'm on my way babe, but the traffic is murder
She： That's what I thought the trouble is at home, if you're not
at home soon.
He： Traffic is messing up my mind
She： ... and you're messing up mine.
3.Burning The Midnight Oil
Here we sit lookin' at each other seems we're at a loss for what
to say
Ties bind us both with someone else we don't want to hurt but we
must break
And tonight I'll sit home a thinkin' and tonight I'll sit home a
drinkin'
We both live in seperate homes where there's no love at all
Stayin' up late burning the midnight oil
Tomorrow we'll meet here in the same place where love and
desires just won't
wait
In each other's arms we'll dream for a little while
Then when it's time to leave it'll nearly drive us wild
And tonight again I'll sit home a thinkin'...
Stayin' up late burning the midnight oil
4.Daddy Was An Old Timer Preacher Man
Daddy was an old time preacher man
He preached the word of God throughout the land
He praeached so plain a child could understand
Yes daddy was an old time preacher man
He told the people of the need to pray
He talked about God's wrath on Judgement Day
He preached about that great eternity
He breathed hell so hot that you could feel the heat
Daddy was an old time preacher man and Leona would get up to
testify
As we'd sing in the sweet by and by then we'd sing I'm on my way
to Canaan's
Land
Yes daddy was an old time preacher man
Revivals and camps meeting's with four weeks
Folks came from all around to hear him preach
Daddy said if one is saved it's worth it all
But the aisles were all we stilled in altar call
Daddy was an old time preacher man...
Daddy worked for God but asked no pay for he believed that God
provides away
We never had a lot but we got by
I guess it's cause the Lord was on my daddy's side
Yes daddy was an old time preacher man
In the sweet by and by we shall meet on that beautiful shore
I'm on my way to Canaan's Land yes daddy was an old time
preacher man
In the sweet by and by we shall meet on that beautiful shore
I'm on my way to Canaan's Land yes daddy was an old time
preacher man
5.Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff
I've never had a pair of shoes that weren't all hand-me-downs
And daddy's morning coffee came from ol' left over ground
My mama wore no jewelry or any store bought stuff
And home was on a hillside forty miles from Poplar Bluff
Forty miles back in Missouri there's a different way of life
Where a man thinks of his neighbor and not his neighbor's wife
Life is far from fancy sometimes mighty rough
But contentment makes it worth it forty miles from Poplar Bluff
Our only family treasure was a beat up radio
But it took us to the places where we knew we'd never go
We never had much money but we always had enough
Cause money never mattered much forty miles from Poplar Bluff
Forty miles back in Missouri
Well nearly every winter when the snow is on the ground
And the roads would all be closed and we couldn't get to town
But if daddy had his tobacco grandma had her snuff
Then the winters didn't seem so long forty miles from Poplar
Bluff
Forty miles back in Missouri
Forty miles from Poplar Bluff
6.Holdin' On To Nothin'
We're holding on to nothing left to hold onto
I'm so tired of holding on to nothin'
The years have shown no kindness
For the hard times we've been through
We've squeezed the life from every dream
And still go right on bluffin'
With really nothin' left to hold onto
Chorus：
Oh why do we keep holding on with nothing left to hold onto
Lets be honest with each other
That's the least that we can do
I feel guilty when they envy me and you
We're holding on with nothing left to hold onto
We were young and foolishly mistaken
Victoms of a passion much too strong to be denied
With only tears to show for all the years that we've been fakin'
God only knows how long how hard we've tried
Repeat chorus
We're holding on with nothing left to hold onto
7.If Teardrops Were Pennies
Wagon and dolly parton
An acre of diamonds i'd offer to you
A solid gold mansion, an airplane or two
This whole world would be yours to have and to hold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
Chorus
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
I'd have all the riches my pockets would hold
I'd be oh so wealthy with treasures untold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold.
The tears that have fallen won buy you a thing
The heartaches you caused me won't pay for a ring
The love that i wanted would not have grown cold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold.
Repeat chorus
But teardrops aren't pennies
And heartaches aren't gold
8.If You Go, I'll Follow You
If you go, I'll follow you
You can't leave my love behind
If you go (if you go) I'll follow you
Even death will never end this love of mine
I have loved you for so long
With a love most true and strong
You have all I may request
And I'll love you good or bad
Where you go I'll come with you
No matter where you take me to
I'll go to hell
And back again
I'll be with you
Until the end
If you go, I'll follow you
You can't leave my love behind
If you go (if you go) I'll follow you
Even death will never end this love of mine
If you go, I'll follow you
9.Is Forever Longer Than Always
YOUR TREMBLING HANDS HELD ME NEAR
YOUR SOFT WARM LIPS WHISPERED IN MY EAR
YOU SAID YOU'D ALWAYS LOVE ME
AND WE'D ALWAYS BE TOGETHER
AND YOUR PROMISED ME YOUR LOVE WOULD LAST FOREVER
IS FOREVER LONGER THAN ALWAYS？
YOU'RE GONE FROM ME OW AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOR DAYS WHY YOU DIDN'T
STAY
UNLESS FOREVER IS LONGER THAN ALWAYS
IS FOREVER LONGER THAN ALWAYS
YOU'RE GONE FROM ME NOW AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOR DAYS
AND IN MY MIND I CAN'T FING THE REASON WHY YOU DIDN'T STAY
UNLESS FOREVER IS LONGER THAN ALWAYS
IS FOREVER LONGER THAN ALWAYS.
10.Jeannie's Afraid Of The Dark
Her two little feet would come running into
Our bedroom almost every night
Her soft little face would be wet from her tears
And her little heart pounding with fright
She'd hold out her arms, then she'd climb in beside us
In her small voice, we'd hear her remark
'mommie and daddy, can i sleep here with you
'cause jeannie's afraid of the dark'
One day in the summer, we took some flowers
To place on some old family graves
Jeannie said, 'mommy, ain't it dark in the ground
Oh, daddy, i'd be so afraid'
Then she looked up at her daddy and me
And said somethin' that broke both our hearts
She said, 'when i die, please don't bury me
'cause jeannie's afraid of the dark'
Jeannie was always afraid of the dark
And we never could understand why
'cause we looked after jeannie with the very best of care
Because jeannie was our only child
Perhaps it was death that she was so afraid of
'cause it took her one dark stormy night
I think we always knew that we'd never see jeannie grown
'cause it seemed she was destined to die
But on jeannie's grave, we placed an eternal flame
That glows and never loses its spark
And on the darkest night, there's always a light
'cause jeannie's afraid of the dark
Our jeannie's afraid of the dark
11.Just Between You And Me
So I feel so blue sometimes I want to die and so I've got a
broken heart so what
They say that time will heal all wounds in mice and men
And I know that someday I'll forget and love again
But just between you and me I've got my doubts about it
Just between you and me you're too much to fotget
So I've lost the only one I've ever loved and so I've never felt
so low so what
I'll just tell myself each time I want to cry
That someday time will dry the teardrops from my eyes
Just between you and me I'm not so sure about it
Just between you and me you're too much to forget
You're too much to forget
12.Just Someone I Used To Know
There's a picture that i carry
One we made some time ago
When they ask who's in the picture with me
I say just 'someone i used to know'
Just someone, i used to spend some time with
Just a flame, that's lost its glow
But i don't them of the nights i cried without you
I say just 'someone i used to know'
Just someone, i used to run around with
Just a friend from long ago
I don't tell them, how lost i am without you
I say just 'someone i used to know'
I say just 'someone i used to know'
13.Lost Forever In Your Kiss
This is not at all like me I never thought that I could be
So overcome by anyone like this
But you caught me by surprise caught me before I realize
Now I am lost forever in your kiss
So take me if you want me love me if you will
(For you have all control of me) and I am yours until
(Till you say that you don't want me oh I hope that never will
be)
For I'm lost forever in your kiss
You're on my mind constantly oh and this is all so new to me
And when you reach for me I can't resist
For I've become a part of you and I'll do anything you want me
to
For I am lost forever in your kiss
So take me if you want me...
14.Making Plans
You say tomorrow you're going
It's so hard for me to believe
I'm making plans for the heartaches
'cause you're making plans to leave
The tears for me will be falling
Like a tree shedding its leaves
I'm making plans for the tear drops
'cause you're making plans to leave
You're making plans to forget me
I'm making plans to miss you
I'm getting ready ti grieve
I'm making plans to be lonesome
'cause you're making plans to leave
I'm making plans to be lonesome
'cause you're making plans to leave
15.Please Don't Stop Loving Me
Please,Please dont stop loving me
Or I couldn't make alone
Please,Please dont stop loving me
Or I couldn't make it when you're gone
You bring me the sunshine
When I is inside
And when I'm in darkness
You bring me the light
You opened my yes when I
Couldn't see
So please, o-oh please
Don't stop loving me-e
Please,Please don't stop loving me
Or I couldn't make it alone
Please,Please dont stop loving me
Or I couldn't make it when you're gone
You bring me the sunshine
When I is inside
And when I'm in darkness
You bring me the light
You opened my eyes when I
Couldn't see
So please,o-oh please
Don't stop loving me
16.Silver Sandals
In silver sandals she goes walkin' up those golden stairs
And though we miss her so we know she's happy to be there
She walks with us in memory we see her all the time
In silver sandals walkin' through our minds.
So many times we let our thoughts turn back to yesterday
To a little girl that could only watch the children as they
played
She walks with us in memories we see her all the time
In silver sandals walkin' through our minds
The grave in which she sleeps is cold but our thoughts of her
are warm
And we cry as we both long to hold her in our arms
Each night in dreams we see her running to us smiling sweet
With silver sandals on her feet
In silver sandals she goes walkin' ...
She had asked for sandals from the time that she could talk
And it would break our hearts when she'd asked us why she
couldn't walk
She'd say when I go to heaven can I change my crutches then
For a pair of silver sandals at the rainbow's end
In silver sandals she goes walkin'...
In silver sandals she goes walkin' through our mind
17.The Last Thing On My Mind
It's a lesson too late for the learning
Made of sand, made of sand
In the wink of an eye my soul is turnin'
In your hand, in your hand
Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Oh i could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind
As we walk along my thoughts are tumblin'
Round and round, round and round
Underneath our feet are someplace rumblin'
Underground, underground
Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Oh i could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind
I've got reason a plenty for goin
This i know, this i know
The weeds have been steadily growin'
Please don't go, please don't go
Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
I could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind
Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Oh i could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind
You know that was the last thing on my mind
18.Tomorrow Is Forever
Take my hand and run with me out of the past called yesterday
And walk with me into the future of tomorrow
Yesterday must be forgot no looking back no matter what
There's nothing there but mem'ries that bring sorrow
Yesterday is gone gone but tomorrow is forever
No more crying tears leave tracks and mem'ries find their way
back
Tomorrow's waking let's journey there together
Yesterday is gone gone gone but tomorrow is forever
I care not for yesterday I love you as you are today
Yesterday just helped to pass the time while waiting
We must forget the passing time my love for you is the real kind
The kind that won't hurt you no never
Yesterday is gone gone gone but tomorrow is forever
Yesterday is gone gone gone but tomorrow is forever
19.We'll Get Ahead Someday
We'll get ahead somedays we'll get ahead someday
If the sun comes up and my wife cuts down we'll get ahead
someday
Well I get up early work hard all day listen to the troubles of
my friends
But I don't realize till I get home whan an awful shape we're in
The car's wore out kids need shoes got a bill from a doctor
today
The landlord said you'll get out tomorrow if you don't get me
some pay
We'll get ahead someday...
The paper says there's a sale downtown I gotta have some money
today
Well there's things at home that's never been used you bought
last bargain day
Well you go out one Saturday night just spend too much money on
wine
Well I work hard all week long and I gotta have a little fun
sometimes
We'll get ahead someday...
If the sun comes up and my wife cuts down we'll get ahead
someday
20.Yours Love
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 that is 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
May the last fingertips that touch these two lips
as life from me slips be yours love
And from this moment on may a love that is strong
that lives on and on be yours love
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