Hits-Chapter 1

Sammy Kershaw Hits-Chapter 1 Lyrics
1.Anywhere But Here


2.Cadillac Style


3.Don't Go Near The Water


4.Haunted Heart

(buddy brock/kim williams)

Go down the road called yesterday
Take a left on a lost highway
And make a right on memory lane
Drive until you feel the pain

And at the river of tears take one last turn
And cross the bridge that just won't burn
A run down house is love's graveyard
That's where you'll find my haunted heart

Well my haunted heart can't rest in peace
It's buried with her memory
And it's a living hell here after dark
All alone with a haunted heart

Late at night a slamming door
Shadows move across the floor
Footsteps fall on silent stairs
I hear her call but no one's there

Her photograph hangs by the bed
A grim reminder love is dead
A love i killed just won't depart
It's living in my haunted heart

Well my haunted heart can't rest in peace
It's buried with her memory
And it's a living hell here after dark
All alone with a haunted heart
I said i'm all alone with a haunted heart


5.I Can't Reach Her Anymore

(mark petersen/bruce theien)

She still answers whenever i call
We talk about work and the weather and all
If i mention the past or maybe coming back home
It ain't long till i hear that old cold dial tone

I still got her number but i can't reach her anymore
I can't reach out and touch her heart the way i did before
She don't have much to talk about
Since my feet did the walking out
If she could only see them walk the floor
I still got her number but i can't reach her anymore

She says her job is hectic but it's beautiful outside
She might call in sick tomorrow and just take a drive
I said i'd really love to see you can i meet you somewhere
And then the conversation fades and long distance fills the air

I still got her number but i can't reach her anymore
I can't reach out and touch her heart the way i did before
She don't have much to talk about
Since my feet did the walking out
If she could only see them walk the floor
I still got her number but i can't reach her
I still got her number but i can't reach her anymore
I can't reach out and touch her heart the way i did before
She don't have much to talk about
Since my feet did the walking out
If she could only see them walk the floor
I still got her number but i can't reach her anymore


6.National Working Woman's Holiday

(roger murrah/pat terry/james dean hicks)
(track 4 - time 3:11)

They oughta' run your picture in a magazine
'cause you're the hardest working woman i've ever seen
If we weren't sinkin' in a river of debt
I'd say, 'quit that job and let 'em do it theirself'
I know we're depending on every dime
But i'm tired of you working that overtime

I'm gonna tell somebody
There ought to be a law against working that way
Tell 'em you're taking off this friday
For the national working woman's holiday

Honey i can tell you're feeling the strain
You deserve a break from that ball and chain
If the union won't say it, then it's up to me
They're just taking advantage of your loyalty
Everybody likes a little time and a half
But we both know you're worth more than that

I'm gonna tell somebody
There ought to be a law against working that way
Tell 'em you're taking off this friday
For the national working woman's holiday

I'll call in sick
And i'll be telling the truth
'cause i'm sick and tired
Of how they're treating you

I'm gonna tell somebody
There ought to be a law against working that way
Tell 'em you're taking off this friday
For the national working woman's holiday

I'm gonna tell somebody
There ought to be a law against working that way
Tell 'em you're taking off this friday
For the national working woman's holiday


7.Queen Of My Double Wide Trailer

(dennis linde)

Well i met her out at murphy's restaurant
She said she was fresh from the farm
And i remember thinkin' for a country girl
That she went pretty well armed
We sat there talkin' by the lobster tank
I ordered her a slow gin fizz
And when them chicken fried steaks arrived
She said i like living like this

So i made her the queen of my double wide trailer
With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck
Times she's run off and i've got to trail her
Dang her black heart and her pretty red neck

Well a few nights later i run into her
With some stranger on a park bench
She said he rebuilds engines and his name is earl
He's the charlie daniels of the torque wrench
I whispered honey let's just go on home
And have some onion rings and watch tv
And as i walked her to the truck
Earl was cryin' don't you leave me
I told him

This is the queen of my double wide trailer
With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck
Sometimes shes runs and i've got to trail her
Dang her black heart and her pretty red neck

I said this is the queen of my double wide trailer
With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck
Sometimes she runs and i've got to trail her
Dang her black heart and her pretty red neck

I said this is the queen of my double wide trailer
With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck
Sometimes she runs and i've got to trail her
Dang her black heart and her pretty red neck

She's the queen
She's the queen


8.She Don't Know She's Beautiful

(bob mcdill/paul harrison)

We go out to a party somewhere
The moment we walk in the door
People stop and everybody stares
She don't know what they're staring for

She don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time i've told her so

There she goes just walking down the street
And someone lets a whistle out
A girl like her she just can't see
What the fuss is all about

And she don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time i've told her so

Morning comes and her hair's all a mess
That's when she thinks she looks her worst
It's times like this she don't know why
I can't take my eyes off her

'cause she don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time i've told her
She don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time i've told her
She don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time i've told her so


9.Still Lovin' You

(rock killough)

I thought you might want to stay
If i put my guitar away
Quit the band and came home to stay
But that wouldn do
And this old guitar of mine
Used to ease my troubled mind
But now every day i find
That it lonesome too

Here i go again
Blowin?my show again
Unable to glow again
Still lovin?you
Losin?my hope again
At the end of my rope again
Unable to cope again
Still lovin?you

I must of been million miles
I must have faked a million smiles
I just can't get reconciled
To be without you
And i like to start again
And replay my part again
Not break your heart again
I can stand these blues

Here i go again
Blowin?my show again
Unable to glow again
Still lovin?you
Losin?my hope again
At the end of my rope again
Unable to cope again
Still lovin?you
I unable to cope again
Still lovin?you


10.Third Rate Romance

(russell smith)
(track 2 - time 3:23)

Sittin' in a tiny table in a ritzy restaurant
She was starin' at her coffee cup
He was tryin' to keep his courage up
By applyin' booze

And talk was small when they talked at all
They both knew what they wanted
There was no need to talk about it
They were old enough to scope it out
And keep it loose

She said, 'you don't look like my type
But i guess you'll do'
Third rate romance
Low rent rendezvous
And he said, 'i'll even tell you that i love you
If you want me to'
Third rate romance
Low rent rendezvous

When they left the bar
They got in his car
And they drove away
He drove to the family inn
She didn't even have to pretend
She didn't know what for

And he went to the desk
And made his request
While she waited outside
Then he came back with the key
She said, 'give it to me
And i'll unlock the door'

She kept saying
'i've never really done this kind of thing before, have you'
Third rate romance
Low rent rendezvous
And he said, 'yes i have
But only a time or two'
Third rate romance
Low rent redezvous
Third rate romance
Low rent rendezvous
Third rate romance
Low rent rendezvous


11.Yard Sale


12.Your Tattoo