Dottie West

Why do people cry When they hear the word goodbye In a love song? Tears are sure to fall When you know they gave it all In a love song. Somehow two lovers get a chance At a beautiful romance And you wish it could be you. 'Cause everybody's needing What the si...

I look at your picture too often it helps keep your mem'ry alive It's not healthy they say to relive yesterday but for me it's the way to survive I must cling to what's gone if I've to go on I can't face the future I've tried Perhaps for the rest looking back...

Yesterday you said you love me Today you say it's over now Why did you go away and leave me? All the world is lonely now I tried so hard to make you happy With love your heart would not allow It's hard to know you'll never love me All the world is lonely now...

Last night all alone in a barroom met a man who set my heart awhirl He had a smile on his lips and coal black hair and eyes that would tempt any girl Then he came and sat down at my table and as he placed his warm hand in mine I found myself wanting to hold hi...

People laugh and love and cry and 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...

I wish I had another heart for you to break For my heart's out of style And hurt so much that I can't smile I may be a fool that's not my first or last mistake And I wish I had another heart for you to break When your love for me died You left that an empty s...

Anytime you're feelin' lonely Anytime you're feelin' blue Anytime you feel down hearted That will prove your love for me is true Anytime you're thinkin' 'bout me Well, that's the time I'll be thinking of you So anytime you say, you want me back again That's t...

Are you happy baby After what you put me through Hope you're happy baby Cause I don't believe you're gonna find anyone Who loves you better than I do Sometimes I wonder if you ever knew How much you were hurtin' me You fell in love with someone else And just l...

Hurt is no stranger to me And oh, how well I know misery You always hurt me and I always forgive And I'll hurt for as long as I love you And I'll love you for as long as I live Oh, it's my fault for loving you so deeply I give you my love completely I give yo...

Baby sweet sweet baby my world's so cold and empty since you've gone Baby sweet sweet baby without you I don't know how I'll go on I've got that lonesome feeling deep inside of me And it just keeps right on hurtin' all the time Oh I'd forget you if it wasn't f...

I tried to love you holding you everything I know to do Baby I tried I can't love you like I used to I tried kissing you missing you anything but hurting you Oh baby I tried just can't love you the way I used to You know I've been your woman I've given you all...

Here's a song for every woman Who's ever waited for her man to come home And for every man who's longed to be there There's a storm across the valley, the clouds're rolling in The afternoon is heavy on your shoulders There's a truck out on the forelane, a mil...

When I wake up every morning you're the first thing that I see And like a new day that is dawning I feel the warmth come over me I can face the world a courage I can make it through the day Cause I know your love comes with me standin' by me all the way Oh wha...

If she brings you happiness then I wish you both the best It's your happiness that matters most of all But if she ever breaks your heart if the teardrops ever start I'll be there before the next teardrop falls Though it hurts to let you go darling I want you t...

Cancel tomorrow, I need no more time I've wasted our words, running you through my mind You'll love me forever not counting today So cancel tomorrow or it will just be in my way You promised me true love that never would die You promised no heartaches, no hur...

I let my heart fall into careless hands Careless hands that broke my heart in two You held my dreams like worthless strings of sand Careless hands don't care when dreams secure You've brought me joy and oh, I loved you so But all that sunshine didn't make ros...

When I was just a young girl my mama told me hon What country's where you've been to what country's where you're from Now I don't wanna hurt you honey can't you see No I'm not in the country the country's still in me I've got Carolina cousins Carolina kin (the...

In the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainty I want to be in the warm hold of your lovin' mind Feel you all around me and to take your hand along the sand Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind When sundown pales the sky I want to hide a while behind...

The cattle are prowlin' and the coyotes are howlin' Way out where the doggies bawl Where spurs are jinglin', my cowboy is singin' His lonesome cattle call He rides in the sun till his day's work is done And he rounds up the cattle each fall Hmm, singin' his c...

A bright array of city lights as far as I can see The great white way shines through the night for lonely girls like me The cabarets and honky tonks their flashing signs invite A broken heart to lose itself in the glow of city lights Lights that say forget his...

I won't say he won't ever stumble But I'm clinging to my baby's hand I won't say he won't bring me trouble But I won't say I won't understand I won't say he'll love me forever 'Cause forever is a long, long time But I will say he will never ever say She was n...

The dawn of springtime gave birth to a new love For you and me but it was born too late For we both had been placed in the arms of others Cheated by the cold hands of fate Fate has no conscience, no mercy for me and you And the cold hands of fate wrote the bo...

I was born a country girl; I will die a country girl My world is made of blue skies and sunshine Green fields and butterflies I'm so glad I'm a country girl Birds sing good morning to a country girl And I sleep to the sounds of whip-o-wills My day is made wit...

You say you love me and it's inviting to go where life is more exciting But I was raised on country sunshine I was raised on country sunshine, green grass beneath my feet Running through fields of daisies, wading through the creek You love me and it's invitin...

Crazy, I'm crazy for feeling so lonely I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue I knew you'd love me as long as you wanted And then someday you'd leave me for somebody new Worry, why do I let myself worry? Wondering what in the world did I do? Crazy for thinking...

Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel And a storm's brewing in this heart of mine This ain't no crazy dream, I know that it's real You're someone else's love now, you're not mine Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new For my yearning heart keeps...

I was all right for a while I could smile for a while But I saw you last night you held my hand So tight as you stopped to say hello You wished me well you couldn't tell that I'd been Crying over you, crying over you Then you said so long left me standing all...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Our little boy is four years old and quite a little man So we spell out the words we don't want him to understand Like T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E But the words we're hiding from him now Tear the heart right out of me. Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E...

Delta Dawn what's that flower you have on? Could it be a faded rose from days gone by? And did I hear you say he was ameetin' you here today To take you to his mansion in the sky She's forty one and her daddy still calls her baby All the folks around Brownsvi...

I'd never thought you'd come back for the pieces Of the love you left scattered behind Take what's left there's no way I can stop you You still have control of my heart and my mind Here's your chance to hurt me all over but this time my pride feels no pain So...

Didn't I try hard enough to understand your ways Didn't I stay strong enough through all our stormy days Like I'd be clinging to our little house so close were you and I Then came the day you just walked away and I lost you didn't I Didn't I kiss you often eno...

It sure gets lonely alone no one to talk to alone Nights sure get longer since you're gone don't keep me lonely too long I need your arms to hold me and hear you say you need me Don't let me live on dreams alone don't keep me lonely too long Mem'ries are bad o...

Don't say a word just kiss me kiss me kiss me (for soon we must part) We only have a little time you're feeling sad I can tell I know my love what's on your mind my heart is breaking as well But darling don't say a word just give me give me give me all the lov...

Your hand is like a torch each time you touch me That look in your eye pulls me apart Don't open the door to heaven if I can't come in Don't touch me if you don't love me, sweetheart Your kiss is like a drink when I'm thirsty And I'm thirsty for you with all...

You make my eyes run over all the time You're happy when I'm out of my mind You don't love me but you won't let me be Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me You must think I look bad with a smile For you haven't let me have on in such a long, long while And s...

Sweet dreams, baby, sweet dreams, baby Sweet dreams, baby, how long must I dream Dream baby got me dreamin' Sweet dreams the whole day through Dream baby got me dreamin' Sweet dreams at nighttime too I love you and I'm dreamin' of you But that won't do Dream...

Today I bought myself a brand new pencil I picked up a yellow legal pad It's gonna take at least that many pages To write you of the bad times that I've had Just so there's no mistake about me leavin' Goodbye will be the first word that I'll write Writi...

Fair weather lover that's what you've always been My fair weather lover you're leaving once again When the sun is shining and everything looks rosy This is when you say you love me so But when a storm appears oh it's all the different story Just when I need y...

Forever yours I'll always be please say that you'll give your sweet love to me Forever yours my love will be I will take care of you say you love me I started living the day I found you I love you with all my heart say you love me too I will stay beside you a...

Last night quietly he walked through my mind As I lay searching for sleep, his arms reached out He whispered my name As he brushed a tear from my cheek And then those funny, familiar, forgotten feelings Started walkin' all over my mind It's sad so sad to watc...

Maybe I should give your ring back We were closer when our hearts were free Gettin' married has made us strangers We're not the lovers we used to be We don't talk now like we used to I don't know you and it breaks my heart Gettin' married has made us stranger...

If you see my love with someone new please stop and give him my love And if he should say she's his dream come true be sure and give him my love And then if he should reach in a kiss so sweet and on his face a smile As she rest her head on his shoulder and dre...

I feel the hunger you feel in your touch Burnin' my body and soul And it's freightnin' just wantin' somebody so much So close to losin' control But darlin', don't make me surrender too soon I'm so afraid of the fall Please give it time to be tender And pretend...

I'm sorry but you've come to the wrong house But I know who those flowers are for The flowers that you have are for someone who's happy And happiness lives next door Someone sends her flowers each evening And her young heart is flooded with joy So don't...

I want to tell you all a story 'bout a Harper Valley widowed wife Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play She said, "Mom, I got a note here from the Harper Valley...

Heartache number one was when you left me I never knew that I could hurt this way And heartache number two was when you come back again You came back but never meant to stay Now I've got heartaches by the number, troubles by the score Every day you love me le...

Take the ribbon from my hair, shake it loose and let it fall Layin’ soft against your skin like the shadows on the wall Come and lay down by my side until the early morning light All I'm taking is your time, help me make it through the night I don't care what...

She only smiled and said hello but your eyes were stars aglow And I knew her hello was my goodbye She held your hand a bit too long as I stood there lookin' on And I watched you I watched you fall in love Was it the time was it the place or was it her pretty f...

Here comes more tears to cry Here comes more heartaches by Here comes my baby, back again Here comes more misery Here comes old memories 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 onc...

Why should I feel disgrace? And why should the shadows come? Why should my heart feel lonely And long for a heavenly home? When Jesus is my fortress And my constant friend is He His eye is on the sparrow And I know He cares for me His eye is on the sparrow A...

O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed. [Chorus] Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How gr...

How many times does your heart break how many tears do you cry How long does it take to forget a love that just won't die How many nights are you lonesome how many days are you blue How many lifetimes will it take me oh to ever get over you I've tried ever...

I believe for every drop of rain that falls A flower grows I believe that somewhere in the darkest night A candle glows I believe for every one who goes astray Someone will come and show the way I believe, I believe I believe above the storm the smallest pr...

You lived it up, turned me down Now it's gonna be the other way around I can turn you every way but loose You take me in then turn me out Now we're gonna take it and turn about I can turn you every way but loose I can turn you every way but loose For I can n...

I don't hurt anymore, all my teardrops are dried No more walking the floor with that burning inside Just to think it could be time has opened the door And at last I am free I don't hurt anymore No use to deny I wanted to die The day you said we were through B...

Today I sat alone at my window And I watched our little boy outside at play With the little girl next door like so many times before But something didn't seem quite right today So I went outside to see what they were doing And then the teardrops came my eyes...

Just like old times you were here last night and gone was my worry and care When I awoke I knew then that I had dreamed of an old love affair I was alone in the darkness my dear many dreams ago you left me there Sunlight told me you had gone and I had dreamed...

I fall to pieces Each time I see you again I fall to pieces How can I be just your friend. You want me to act like we've never kissed You want me to forget, pretend we've never met And I've tried and I've tried but I haven't yet You walk by and I fall to piec...

Hmm I heard an old song today and it took me to yesterday Back to the time when your love was mine now the song lingers on in my mind Stirring mem'ries that I'd left behind the time of my life when I was your wife Now the song I've heard was our song today Tod...

I love you so much it hurts me darling that's why I'm so blue I'm so afraid to go to sleep at night afraid of losing you I love you so much it hurts me and there's nothing I can do I wanna hold you my dear forever and ever (I love you so much) it hurts me so...

I miss you already and you're not even gone The time has come, you're telling me goodbye I know that I can't stop you if I try I've had way too many chances now, I'll have to set you free I watch you go too late, I know how much you mean to me Yes, I mi...

The nights were dark and long, I spent a million all alone But I never once stopped loving you My world was cold and still, my dreams lay unfulfill Oh, but I never once stopped loving you I'll never once stop believing We'd love again the way we used to do An...

How many arms have held you And hated to let you go? How many, how many I wonder? But I really don't want to know How many lips have kissed you And set your soul aglow? How many, how many I wonder? Oh, I really don't want to know So always make me wonder Alw...

Accidentally in your arms and that's all it took Knowing how you want and need me from just one look To leave you now is something you should know that I can't do I stayed long enough to fall in love with you Long enough to know that what I feel won't go away...

This is the very first day since you left me But I'll try to put my thoughts in a song And all I can hear myself saying Is I still can't believe you're gone. I still can't believe that you'd leave me What did I do that was so wrong There's just too many unans...

If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game I'd be a legend legend in my time If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets I'd be a legend in my time But oh, they don't give awards And there's no praise or fame For a heart that's been broken Over love...

I'll help you forget her if you'll let me I'll welcome your arms open wide I'll give you my shoulder to cry on until all your teardrops have dried I'll help you forget her when you're lonely my arms will be your code to call A shield from the storm that has hu...

I'll hold you in my heart Till I can hold you in my arms Like you've never been held before I'll think of you each day Then I'll dream the night away Till you are in my arms once more The stars up in the sky Know the reason why I feel so blue while I'm aw...

Once again you've got me cryin' I'm a fool if I let this go on You can hurt me without even tryin' Think I'll pick up my heart and go home I can see the first signs of autumn All at once, all the flowers are gone Suddenly I feel so forgotten Think I'll pick u...

When I look up at the heavens when day is through Once again there's a good day I'll hold to you With the world to watch over still you watch me too I'm grateful grateful When I sit at my table I say a prayer Bout the good things upon it that you put there And...

When you look at me as if to say you need me You don't know how close I come to giving in But I'm trying to be strong and to keep from doing wrong I wish you'd never come to me again Cause baby I'm only a woman only a woman Can't you see my heart's not made of...

I walk in the room is bare I close my eyes pretending you're there I feel your hand pressing mine your soft sweet lips pressing mine And I'm making excuses why I can't stay but I find that I'm slowly melting away And I can't resist the thrill of your touch Cau...

Sometimes I want to throw my arms around you Then I tremble at the thought of giving in Because I know how much it cost to love you And I'm so afraid of losing you again Being close to you revives the sorrow That wakes me up and tells me I can't win I'd love...

Hear the lonesome whippoorwill He sounds to blue to fly The midnight train is a-winding low I'm so lonesome I could cry I've never seen a night so long When time keeps crawling by The moon is gone behind the clouds To hide his face and cry Have you ever seen...

If I can stay away long enough maybe I'll forget you If I can stay away long enough I'll lose my love for you If I can get you out of my mind another love I'll try to find Then live my life of happiness till the end of time If I can stay away long enough maybe...

If you go away on this summer day Then you might as well take the sun away All the birds that flew in the summer sky When our love was new and our hearts were high When the day was young and the night was long And the moon stood still for the night-bird's song...

In its own little way my heart keeps missing you In its own little way my heart keeps wanting you I'm hoping that you'll come back to stay My heart keeps loving you in its own little way If my heart could forget then I know I could met Myself I'm someone new b...

I'll get over you before too long Just wait and see And I won't need you any more Than you'll need me You just can't be that important My life can't be over yet For I know it just takes practice To forget They say practice makes perfect So I'll just practice...

It's a sin, my darling, how I love you Because I know our love can never be It's a sin to keep these mem'ries of you When silence proves that you've forgotten me The dream I built for us now has tumbled Each promise broken just like my heart It's a sin, my da...

I talked to me and I told me you'd be leaving I made my plans to get up from the fall I talked to me into thinkin' I could make it but oh it's dawned on me you're gone It's like I didn't even talk to me or make any plans at all It's like I died and lived and d...

If time were not a moving thing And I could make it stay this hour The love we share will always be There'd be no coming day To shine a morning light Make us realize all night it's over When you walk away from me There is no place to put my hand Except to sha...

It's teardrop time I'm all alone again it's teardrop time my baby's gone again My happiness has left me here behind sad eyes get sick to cry it's teardrop time Again he's heard the call from his old flame And the fire that beckoned took him just like an evenin...

If I could see you just one time Oh, how it'd ease my troubled mind If I could just hold you one more time And then pretend that you're still mine Lips that used to thrill me so They now thrill someone else I know Gone is the love that once was mine Wish I co...

Love that runs away from me Dreams that just won't let me be Blues that keep on bothering me Chains that just won't set me free Too far away from you and all your charms Just out of reach of my two empty arms Each night in dreams, I see your face Memories, ti...

I come from just the other side of nowhere To this big time lonesome town. They got a lot of ice and snow here, Half as cold as all the people I've found. Every way I try to go here seems to bring me down. I've seen about enough to know where I belong. I've g...

He's the King of kings I stood upon a lonely mountain side When suddenly a vision came to me I saw Golgota's Hill where Jesus died To give men hope for immortality I thought do we appreciate for call The cruel suffering crucification brings Kneel down and pr...

Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend? What have I done that has made you so distant and cold? Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again And will you be happy when you are withered and old? No, I cannot offer you diamonds or mansions so fine An...

Last time I saw him he sweetly kissed my lips Last time I saw him he said I'll be back for more of this Last time I saw him we were crying at the bus I knew he hated leaving but he had to set us up I gave him money, I know I invested well Momma doesn't trust...

The last word in lonesome is me The last word in lonesome is me My heart is as lonely as a heart can be lonely And the last word in lonesome is me Too bad what's happened to our good love Too bad what's happened to our good love But sometimes our best isn't q...

Nobody likes losin' a friend or a lover Nobody likes being alone Nobody wants to feel like somebody don't need them Nobody likes being alone So stop. Turn around Just look at what we're doin' Callin' it quits Like a couple of fools Oh, stop. Come back Let's...

You tell me you love her with all of your heart And there's no room left there for me But someday if she'll hurt you and your whole world falls apart I'll take a left over corner of your heart Just a left over corner of a heart not much as true But it just goe...

Slowly very slowly you're fading away and little by little I'm forgetting each day So if I cry when I see you don't think I'm still your fool It's just a left over feelings that I have for you You know it takes quite a while to forget your whole world Especial...

Let me be a little kinder Let me be a little blinder To the faults of those about me Let me praise a little more Let me be, when I am weary Just a little bit more cheery Think a little more of others And a little less of me Let me be a little braver...

Somebody's gonna give you a lesson in leavin' Somebody's gonna give you back what you've been givin' And I hope that I'm around To watch 'em knock you down It's like you to love 'em and leave 'em Just like you loved me and left me It's like you to do that sor...

I bless the day I found you I want to stay around you And so I beg you let it be me Don't take this heaven from one If you must cling to someone Now and forever let it be me Each time we meet love I find complete love Without your sweet sweet love What would...

Just one more dance, just one more chance So I can talk to you Don't live too fast, forget the past I will try to prove I would do anything you ask me to Don't run around, don't turn me down Let me talk to you Don't go too far with that crowd at the bar That...

I know it won't be long until I hear from you You'll be back as soon as you have lost with someone new Giving me the run around the way you always do Begging for another chance to prove your love is true And like a fool I'll take you back again knowing all hea...

Lonely is a rainy day when home is something far away And someone special on your mind, you'd sure love to see Lonely is a call to home when no one's there to catch the phone And night time seems to have no dawn and you don't have a friend Lonely is a feeling...

There's a long line of mourners driving down our little street Their fancy cars are such a sight to see They're all of your rich friends her knew you in the city And now they finally, oh, they've brought you back home to me When you left me you told me that s...

I know you think you are hurting me and I must admit this is true But the hurt I am feeling I know I'll get over but look what you're doing to you This world holds so many temptations and I have had one or two But the promise of evening grows dim in the mornin...

So long we've been married last burden we've carried Though fate kept us humble and made our love true But plans that we'd make up someone seems to break up Oh darling what else can we do We may have to leave here to find piece of mind dear Some place where we...

Cause your love takes good care of me yes your love takes good care of me And when the rain falls and the wind blows and the storm is on the sea I'll be safe your love takes care of me When life for me gets weary and the sun refuses to shine I run to the arms...

The time has come for me to leave you cryin' But love is priceless when it's stained with tears Love has wings and my love is ever flyin' in its way to you through endless years Love's young dream foretells no separations that sacred flame can burn reality Yet...

Stealing someone else's love is as bad as any crime And we know someday we'll pay we're just loving on borrowed time How much longer can I hide this stolen love that can't be mine And how much longer can we run till they find oh oh we're loving on borrowed tim...

Loving you has meant everything to me Oh, I can finally see you're really gone from me Loving you has meant the whole world to me Oh, but it's too late now I see that you were all that I could ever need Now ain't funny to keep on hurtin' one who loves you ten...

Make the world go away And get it off my shoulder Say the things you used to say And make the world go away Do you remember when you loved me Before the world took me astray? If you do please forgive me And make the world go away Make the world go away And g...

Makin' memories to last the lifetime A lifetime I'll be living without you It feels so good to be in your arms tonight And to think it's the last time don't seem right But let's be happy to the end As parting sweet sorrow begins Makin' memories to last the li...

Mama kiss the hurt away yes mama kiss the hurt away When I was just a little girl I'd fall down and skinned up my knees But mama would say let me kiss the hurt away then it'll be all better Well it wasn't very long till I started first grade And I cried cause...

The one I love so much told me goodbye it hurt so much but I didn't cry I let a smile hide my misery mama you'd have been proud of me Yesterday I thought to him just like a friend smiled and asked him how he'd been Said I hope you're happy as can be mama yo...

Busted flat in Baton Rouge waitin' for the trains Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained Took us all the way to New Orleans I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna I was playing sad while Bobby sang the blues...

Come here my precious little boy Mommy loves you so We've got big things to talk about Some things you have to know And though you're only four years old I know you understand That from now on you've got to be Mommy's little man Your daddy left for good toda...

Hold back the rushing minutes, make the wind lie still Don't let the moonlight shine across the lonely hill Dry all the raindrops, hold back the sun The world has ended, my baby's gone I'll wake up almost every night and realize you're gone I'll toss and turn...

Oh, when the evening sun goes down You will find me hanging 'round Oh, the night life ain't no good life But it's my life Many people just like me Dreaming of old used-to-be Oh, the night life ain't no good life But it's my life Well, listen to the blues the...

No one to cry to no one to kiss goodnight no one to tell my troubles to No one to sigh to no one to hold me tight no one to cheer me when I'm blue I go home to my lonely room and find there's no one there And each night I think of you please answer this one pr...

No one will ever know my heart is breaking Although a million teardrops start to flow I'll cry myself to sleep and wake up smiling I'll miss you but no one will ever know I'll tell them we grew tired of each other And realized our dreams could never be I'll e...

No sign of living no sign of the dead there's someone existing in this house instead No flowers are blooming no children to cry no fire is burning no tears fill the eyes There's someone existing from twilight till dawn There's someone who's missing someone all...

Bluer than all the skies above Sadder than the weeping willow tree That's the way I am without your love I never thought you'd run away from me Deeper than the oceans and the seas Sweeter than berries on the vine This was the love you took from me It hurts me...

Only a fool could keep on loving you If it's crazy to love you then I'm crazy cause I do You don't care who's heart you're breaking only a fool could keep on loving you Only a fool would cling to love when it's such a hopeless thing Stay around and worship you...

It's been many years now since you left me But your love and your mem'ries they're still like you I've tried everything I could to forget you now there's only one thing left to do I know it's not right this way I'm thinking But then nothing's been right si...

Don't build for me no paper mansions That only stand until you've gone You've paint the nastiest futures Of anyone I know You always leave me holding on To pretty words that glow You've built a thousand mansions Out of dreams that seemed so strong But they'r...

You were mine for just a while, Now you're puttin' on the style And you've never once looked back At your home across the track. You're the gossip of the town But my heart can still be found Where you tossed it on the ground. Pick me up on your way down. Pick...

Put it off until tomorrow, oh oh, you've hurt me enough today You say our love is over, that you have found another And you say you're going away Leave me tomorrow, oh oh, you've hurt me enough today I've hurt me enough today, you can't believe a word that I...

Put your hand in the hand Of the man who stills the water Put your hand in the hand Of the man who calmed the sea Take a look at yourself Then you can look at others differently By putting your hand in the hand Of the man from Galilee Well, every time I look...

(Puttin' pain on paper crying in permanent blue) When I began this letter I had hopes I wouldn't cry But I always knew it would cause me more than a stamp to tell you goodbye Puttin' pain on paper mailing all my hurt to you Puttin' pain on paper crying in perm...

Please release me, let me go 'Cause I don't love you anymore And to waste our lives would be a sin Release and let me love again Yes, I have found a new love, dear And I will always want him near His lips are warm while yours are cold Release me, my darling,...

Along the wild Texas border, was no law and order When Reno brought me to this land He was after the wild ones, the mustangs, the shy ones And hoping that I'd understand But there's too many long nights, a wife should have some rights It seems that it's so pl...

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 man on Rocky Top half bear the other half cat Wild as a mink but sweet as soda pop and I still dream about that Oh Rocky Top,...

I'm rollin' rollin' rollin' in the sunshine of your sweet sweet love So many loves left me in darkness I'd lock my heart and slept alone at night But when you smiled a window opened In poured the sun you were the one who let him to light And now I'm rollin' in...

I beg you pardon, I never promised you a rose garden Along with the sunshine, there's gotta be a little rain sometimes When you take you got to give, so live and let live or let go I beg you pardon, I never promised you a rose garden I could promise you thing...

Thanks for the ride hey Mister it's nice I look just like your sister You'd like to show me a good time I believe you Thanks for the offer but here's where I leave you Route 65 to Nashville I will pick it up just south of Lousville It's on the right the sign i...

Saviour again to Thy dear name we raise with one accord our parting hymn of praise Once more we bless Thee ere our worship cease Then lowly bending wait Thy word of peace (Grant us Thy peace upon our homeward way With Thee began with Thee shall end the day) Gu...

I've got your picture that you gave to me And it's signed with love, just like it used to be The only thing different, the only thing new I've got your picture, she's got you I've got the records that we used to share And they still sound the same as when you...

Hopelessly the ghost of me sinks down into a chair And underneath the cushion there's a ribbon from her hair Just a crumpled up reminder that my daughter's only here For six weeks ever summer and Christmas every other year. The role of part-time mother it's t...

Slowly, I'm falling more in love with you Slowly, you're winning a heart that can be true I can't hide my feelings, no matter what I do For slowly, I'm falling more in love with you More and more, I need you and want you by my side More and more, I love you...

Beneath that snowy mantle, cold and clean The unborn grass lies waiting for its coat to turn to green The snowbird sings the song he always sings And he speaks to me of flowers that will bloom again in spring When I was young, my heart was young then too Anyt...

Someone before me still turns you inside out When we're together she's all you talk about You're always wanting me to do the things she used to do Someone before me sure left her mark on you I've tried to get inside your heart but I don't stand a chance I can...

Someone's gotta cry when love is over and as you leave it's very plain to see You're not about to cry for you're in love again But someone's gotta cry so that leaves me There's very little left to say the goodbyes have been said But anytime a true love dies th...

You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie. And who am I to judge you on what you say or do? I'm only just beginning to see the real you. And sometimes when we touch, the honesty's too much, And...

What have I got to do to make you love me What have I got to do to make you care What do I do when lightning strikes me And I wake up to find that you're not there What have I got to do make you want me What have I got to do to be heard What do I say when it'...

Your love was a summer breeze that blew my mind and doesn't mean And left my heart clinging desperately to a special memory So special memory come walk with me through the fields of used to be Where dreams can be reality and once again each you and me special...

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. You'll have bad times And he'll have good times, Doin' things that you don't understand. But if you love him you'll forgive him, even though he's hard to understand. And if you love him...

After sundown comes suffer time for me And I go to that small cafe where we used to meet I'll have the special for today 'cause nothing matters to me Just make my coffee cold and black, oh, like my future's gonna be And let me cry to a sad song for he's still...

Sing a song sweet music man 'cause I won't be there To hold your hand like I used to, I'm through with you You're a heck of a singer and powerful man but you surround yourself With people who demand so little of you You touched my soul with your beautiful...

I slipped out of the house about sundown While mama was a washin' her hair And you can bet your bottom dollar she'll come lookin' for me When she'll find that I'm not there And if she catches her sweet thang slipping around I know there'll be the debit to pay...

Why must you always try to make me over? Take me as I am or let me go White lilies never grow on stalks of clover Take me as I am or let me go You're trying to reshape me in a mold love In the image of someone you used to know But I won't be a standing for an...

I was dancin' with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz When an old friend I happened to see I introduced him/her to my loved one and while they were dancin' My friend stole my sweetheart from me I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz Now I know just how m...

Thank you baby for teaching me the world is really round There's more to it than my two eyes can see Thank you baby for showing me that black is sometimes grey And the alphabet is more than ABC Thanks for explaining that there are things the best left unexplai...

(That's where our love our love must be) Where the sun takes the dew from the roses Where winter takes the color from the leaves Where the frost takes the sweetest of all flowers That's where that's where our love must be To that same place go the bubbles from...

Like a babe when it cries for its mother Like a child, I was helpless, alone Then I met the Master And now I am one of His own. Chorus And all things were changed when He found me A new day broke through all around me For I met the Master Now I belong to Him...

There goes my only possession there goes my everything I hear footsteps slowly walking as they gently walk across a lonely floor And a voice is so softly saying darling this will be goodbye forever more There goes my reason for living there goes the one of my...

There's a big wheel, there's a big wheel He's a whole lot bigger than you There's a big wheel, there's a big wheel He's a whole lot bigger than me. When you think you've got the world by the tail And you don't have to worry 'bout fame When you think the world...

There's a story goin' 'round I've heard it now all over town The two of us is here through And I'm afraid to ask of you Is there a reason? Is there a reason? For all the words heard and said Should I forget it? Say it's just gossip And let it pass right thoug...

They just don't make love like they used to they stone a heart that's warm and true It seems to fall apart no matter what we do They just don't make love like they used to Love just don't hold on like it used to it dies before it's halfway through And it seems...

Today for her has only been thirteen years of livin' And for me it's been a wonderful thirteen years of givin' She grows taller every day and farther from my world God help me reach this stranger, my little girl Music, I can't understand replaced her nursery...

I reached out my arms and I touched you with soft words I whispered your name I held you right on the tip of my fingers oh but that was as close as I came My eyes had a vision of sweet lips yielding beneath my command I had your love on the tips of my fingers...

Today I started loving you again And so I'm right back where I've really always been I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend And then today I started loving you again What a fool I was to think I could get by On only these few million tears I...

Together again my tears have stopped falling The long lonely nights are now at an end The key to my heart you hold in your hand And nothing else matters now, we're together again Together again, the gray skies are gone And you're back in my arms right...

Oh, you tell me that you love me Yes, you tell me that you care That tomorrow we'll be married But tomorrow's never there Many weeks now have I waited And many, many long nights have I cried Just to see that happy morning, happy morning When I'd have you righ...

Touch my heart feel the hurt it's destroying me I've tried but I can't seem to shake his memory Touch my heart feel the hurt the pain and misery And tell me again what love can do for me If you lived in my world awhile you'd soon forget how to smile For in my...

You're not a dream You're not an angel You're a man I'm not a queen I'm a woman Take my hand We'll make a space In the lives That we planned And here we'll stay Until it's time for you to go Yes, we're diff'rent, Worlds apart We're not the same We laughed an...

Walk through this world with me go where I go Share all my dreams with me I need you so In life we search and some of us find I've looked for you a long long time And now that I found you new horizons I see Come take my hand and walk through this world with me...

I know it's late, I know you're weary I know your plans don't include me Still here we are, both of us lonely Longing for shelter from all that we see Why should we worry, no one will care girl Look at the stars so far away We've got tonight, who needs tomorro...

Wear away wear away I'm so afraid that time may wear away your love someday If water can wear away the hardest rock if --- can wear away the strongest lock Then I can't help but wonder could it ever be That time could wear away your love from me Wear away wear...

Take your scissors and take your time And cut along the dotted line And follow closely my design For I want to be what I'm cut out to be Give me kisses warm and sweet And dream about me while you sleep And all your secrets I will keep For I want to be what I'...

What changed the look in his eyes? What made the change in his heart? What changed his mind about the love we had? What's tearing us apart? What's come over my baby? He's not the same as before What's come over my baby? My baby don't love me anymore Can it b...

You like to mix with people, I like to be alone Baby you can stay out all night, and I'd just as well stay home Two people with so little in common, and different as we can be We come together around midnight when it's just you and me When it's just you and me...

Your world was so different from mine, don't you see? We just couldn't be close though we tried We both reached for heavens but ours weren't the same That's what happens when two worlds collide Your world was made up of things sweet and good And my world coul...

Since I have known you there's a shadow hanging over you Keeping you from scene that you might need me It's too bad that you're not glad for I could take you to the place where love is Someone you loved another time is standing in the way of mine Wishes that I...

Once I stood in the night with my head bowed low In the darkness as black as could be And I felt so alone and I cried oh Lord don't hide your face from me Hold my hand all the way every hour every day From here to the great unknown Take my hand and let me stan...

There you are standing at the window again I know there's something tuggin' at your soul You look like could run a hole in the wind you're burning up with desire to go Your touch has the hands of the cold north wind I know it's all over but goodbye To know you...

I am a lineman for the county And I drive the main road Searchin' in the sun for another overload I hear you singing in the wires I can hear you through the whine And the Wichita lineman is still on the line I know I need a small vacation But it don't look...

I know I'm only Willie's winter love he only seems to meet me just now and then I know I'm only Willie's winter love but he's mine alone till springtime comes again When springtime comes I know he'll be leaving When his good time friends start calling him to...

With pen in hand, you signed your name Today at five I'll be on that train And you'll be free and I will be alone Oh, so alone If you think we can't find the love we once knew If you think I can make everything up to you Then I'll be gone and you'll be on you...

A lonesome whistle sails through the pines And finds me crying on my pillow I wipe the tears and raise up my head I hear a forest call up low Listen yonder comes a train Mama, is that the one he's on The only thing that keeps me goin' is Knowin' he's coming b...

It's a middle of the night What's on your mind I'd like to know Your coming here just isn't right You didn't stop to say hello Is she walking out on you Or did you choose to let her go There must be something on your mind You didn't stop to say hello Well, c...

You give your hand to me and then you say hello And I can hardly speak my heart is beating so And anyone can tell you, think you know me well But you don't know me No you don't know the one who dreams of you each night Longs to kiss your lips and longs to hol...

I cried a tear, you wiped it dry I was confused, you cleared my mind I sold my soul, you bought it back for me And held me up, and gave me dignity Somehow you needed me. You gave me strength to stand alone again To face the world out of my own again You put m...

When you walk through a storm hold your head up high And don't be afraid of the dark At the end of the storm is a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark Walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain Though your dreams be tossed and blown Walk on,...

You're the only world I know You're the one I can't let go You're my laughter and my tears And I love you all my years You're the beating of my heart You're my thoughts while we're apart You're the one I can't let go You're the only only world I know You're...

You're the other half of me You're the eyes through which I see All alone, I'm only half a girl That with you I can be You're the other half of me Things I begin they always end half started Things I say always sound half parted I'm as helpless as a baby bird...

Your love, your love, your sweet love (Your sweet love) Your love, your love, your sweet love (Your sweet love) If I were a queen and could have everything My greatest treasure would be your sweet lover (Your sweet love) Stars shine bright but stars can fall...