1.Could You Love Me One More Time
Could you love me one more time
With a love that really is mine
I've waited so long they say you've gone wrong
Have I lost you forever this time
We'll go down by the river
I'll ask you one last time
As the night breezes blow I'll whisper so low
Could you love me one more time
Do you think that I'd believe
This talk that's going around
I've heard lots of things that some have seemed strange
But darling I wouldn't throw you down
I know that you're my weakness
I know you'll be my downfall
I'm not sorry we met and I'll never forget
Though I gave you my heart soul and all
2.Over the Sea
Over life's strange restless sea
Beautiful voices come to me
Near and nearer yet they come
Breathing words of love from home
Over life's strange restless sea
Over the sea, over the sea
Beautiful voices come to me
Nearer they come where e'er I roam
Breathing sweet sounds
Of the dear ones from home
Over the sea, over the sea
Oh my beloved ones
Our journey's never done
Though our hearts alone we bear
This song we'll ever hear
Oh my beloved ones
Over the sea, over the sea
Beautiful voices come to me
Nearer they come where e'er I roam
Breathing sweet sounds
Of the dear ones from home
Over the sea, over the sea
3.Elkhorn Ridge
Standing on old Elkhorn Ridge, true love by my side
Waiting for an eastbound train to load me to take a ride
Working on the county road at a dollar and a dime
Give that dollar to that gal of mine and this old dime is mine
Yonder comes that girl of mine, she's all dressed in red
Looking down at her pretty little feet and I wish my wife was
dead
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, oh darlin' I'm crazy 'bout you
Yonder comes that gal of mine, she's all dressed in brown
She is the darlin' of my heart I'll see her 'fore the sun goes
down.
4.I Have No Mother Now
I hear the low winds sweeping
Through every bush and tree
Where my dear mother's sleeping
Away from home and me
Cold in the grave she's lying
And sorrow shapes my brow
She's gone from me to Heaven
I have no mother now
I see the pale moon shining
On mother's white tombstone
With roses o'er entwining
They're just like me and her
They're just me a weeping
As sorrow shapes my brow
She's gone from me to heaven
I have no mother now
Sad was the hour of parting
In a voice so low and sweet
She said loved ones I'm dying
We must in Heaven meet
Oh yes we'll meet dear mother
On that eternal shore
And dwell as one in Heaven
Where parting comes no more
Oh yes we'll meet dear mother
On that eternal shore
And dwell as one in Heaven
Where parting comes no more
5.If That's the Way You Feel
I don't blame you for I know you want him
That your love for me was never real
I could hold you but you'd be unhappy
But it's alright if that's the way you feel
I know that I will always go on caring
And my feelings now I must conceal
I still need you and I want you with me
But it's alright if that's the way you feel
I always knew someday I would lose you
When those lies about me were revealed
It's plain to see sweetheart you believe them
But it's alright if that's the way you feel
I know that I will always go on caring
And my feelings now I must conceal
I still need you and I want you with me
But it's alright if that's the way you feel
6.Pretty Saro
I came in this country 18 and 49
I thought myself lucky for to be alive
I looked all around me, no one could I see
That I could compare with my pretty saree
I wish I was a poet, could write a fine hand
I'd write my love a letter, one she'd long understand
I send it by the water where the islands over flow
And I'd think of pretty saro wherever I go
At the foot of yon mountain there lies a deep snow
oh it's not this long journey, leaving friends that I know
there's one thing that grieves me and bears on my mind
its leaving my darlin' pretty saro behind
7.Precious Memories
Precious memories, unseen angels sent from somewhere to my soul
How they linger ever near me, and the sacred past unfolds
Chorus:
Precious memories, how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious sacred scenes unfold
Precious father, lovin' mother fly across the lonely years
And the home scenes of my childhood in fond memory appears
Repeat chorus
In the stillness of the midnight, echoes from the past I hear
Old time singin', gladness ringin' from that lovely land
somewhere
Repeat chorus
8.Let YOur Light Shine On Me
Let it shine on me, let it shine on me
let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
My lord he done just what he said
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
Heal the sick and raise the dead
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
Let it shine on, let it shine on
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
Shine on, oh let it shine on
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
I know I got religion and I ain't ashamed
Let you light from the lighthouse shine on me
Angels in the heaven done wrote my name
Let you light from the lighthouse shine on me
Let it shine on, oh let it shine on
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
Shine on, oh let it shine on
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
9.Omie Wise
You promised you'd meet me/Down at Adam's spring
And bring me some money/And other fine things
No money, no money,/Let this be thy fate
We will go and get married/It'll be no disgrace
Just get on behind me/And away we will ride
Till we come to yon city/Where I'll make you my bride
She got on behind him/And away they did ride
Till they came to the river/Where water falls wide
Little Omie, Little Omie,/I'll tell you my mind
My mind is to drown you/And leave you behind
Go pity, go pity,/Go pity cried she
No pity, no pity,/No pity have I
He beat her, he choked her/Till she scarcely could stand
Then he threw her in the river/Below the milldam
Little Omie were a missing/Nowheres could be found
Her friends and relations/All gathered around
Her mother kept a crying/Till at last I heard her say
Jimmy Lewis has killed her/He's now run away
He's up on deep river/as I understand
They've got him in prison/For killing a man
They've got him in prison/ bound down to the ground
He has made his confession/he's got it wrote down
You can kill me or hang me/ for I am the man
That drownded little Omie/ below the milldam
10.Old Flames
Downtown tonight, I saw an old friend, someone who
I used to take comfort from long before I found you
I saw the look in her eyes of forgotten desire
With a look or a touch, I could have rekindled the fire
But old flames can't hold a candle to you
No one can light up my nights like you do
Flickering embers of love, I've known one or two
But old flames can't hold a candle to you
Sometimes at night I think of old lovers I've known
And remember how holding them made me not feel so alone
But lyin' beside you, even old lovers are gone
Like stars in the night, lost in the sweet light of dawn
Old flames can't hold a candle to you
No-one can light up my nights like you do
Flickering embers of love, I've known one or two
But old flames, can't hold a candle to you
No old flames can't hold a candle to you
11.Western Dream
A one Way ticket west,
she'll ride a horse like the rest
Prairie dogs in the night
and rattlesnakes bite
She'll live a cowgirl's dream
She'll be a Lonestar Queen
Abilene is a town
that the rodeo's in
He's the one on her mind
as the city lights dim
She'll live a cowgirl's dream
She'll be a lonestar queen
Chorus:
Now Cowgirls get lonely sometime
they sit and cry at a cheap five and dime
In the East she would dream all the time
of how western girls live
The way their spurs jangle down the trail
She sees was only a fairy tale
This western life doesn't seem quite her own
She'll take a one way trip home
This western life doesnt seem quite her own
Send this eastern girl home
12.Bright Morning Stars
Bright morning stars are rising
Bright morning stars are rising
Bright morning stars are rising
Day is a breaking in my soul
Oh where are our dear mothers
Oh where are our dear mothers
They've gone to heaven shouting ,
Day is a breaking in my soul.
Oh where are our dear fathers
Oh where are our dear fathers
They're down in the valley praying
Day is a breaking in my soul.
They've gone to heaven shouting
They've gone to heaven shouting
They've gone to heaven shouting,
Day is a breaking in my soul.
Bright morning stars are rising
Bright morning stars are rising
Bright morning stars are rising
Day is a breaking in my soul
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