Faron Young

A heartache for a keepsake What a tragic souvenir Now I know how it feels When people's dreams all disappear I'm looking out my window Watching her just walk away A heartache for a keepsake It became mine just today A picture fades with time But wil...

(Virginia Midgett - Arthur Korb) A lifetime isn't long enough To be in love with you To prove how much I care sweetheart The way I want to do. A lifetime isn't long enough I couldn't even start In twice that time to tell you have The things within my h...

(Roger Miller - Faron Young) I know how it feels to be alive with no desire to live I know how it feels to never take and always have to give And the day I found out was on the day you let me down In this world so full of love with not enough to go around....

According to my heart you're the one for me The one love of my life is here when you're with me If someone stole your love my heart would beat no more For you're the one my heart is always longing for Though I don't know the reason why my dreams don't tur...

Love is where you find it when you find no love at home And there's nothing cold as ashes after the fire is gone The bottle is almost empty the clock just now struck ten Darling I had to call you to our favorite place again We know it's wrong for us to me...

One night I went to town and met a girl from Alabama. In her eyes I saw the sadness she had seen life. I found out she had spent some wasted years in old Chicago. Had a hundred men or more, but never as a wife. She was going home to start her life in Alab...

All right I know I am to blame All right I've brought on all this shame. The love you said you had for me Could not have been too strong If you can't forgive me now For doin' just one wrong. So All right I've cheated and I've lied I broke each vow...

Almost you fell in love with me almost you were my bride to be But each promise that was made you have broken and betrayed And left me with a faded memory Almost my precious dream came true almost you whispered dear I do But someone new came by and you lef...

How I'd love to be around you when the lonely night surrounds you How I'd love to be alone with you What I'd give to have the power to read your mind one hour How I'd love to be alone with you Just to be with you one night you and me alone Kiss your lips...

They say you've found somebody new, But that won't stop my loving you. I just can't let you walk away, Forget the love I had for you. Yes I could find somebody, too, But I don't want no one but you. How could you leave without regret? Am I that easy to forget...

Anything your heart desires I would give to you my love All the world I'd like to give and hand to you the stars above I don't own the world or the stars in the blue and all I can give is my love to you Anything your heart desires I would to give to you my...

Well I've never been so lonely and I've never been so blue I'm leaving in the morning gonna backtrack to you Your picture's here beside me and never leaves my sight I'm kissin' like I'm kissin' you oh how I'm missin' you tonight Well tomorrow night will be...

Have gun will travel reads the card of a man A knight without armor in a savage land His fast gun hire heeds the calling wind A soldier of fortune is a man called Paladin Paladin Paladin where do you roam Paladin Paladin far far from home He travels on t...

If he brings you happiness then I wish you both the best It's your happiness that matters most of all But if he 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...

You're telling everybody that she loves you you know she don't You're telling everybody that she'll come back you know she won't You tell the same old story to everybody else And pretty soon you'll start believeing it yourself I know because she put me thr...

You thought you'd set the world on fire that life was just a song You thought if you'd try hard enough things couldn't turn out wrong How feeble is the string of those whose heartaches never ease But there'll may be a chance for me for better things than th...

And so I finally get the chance to love you just when I thought everything was lost But he walked out on you and now you need me You want me to take up where he left off So I've got big shoes to fill and I do the best I can I just hope my best is good enou...

Bimbo, Bimbo Where ya gonna go e oh, Bimbo, Bimbo Whatcha gonna do e oh. Bimbo, Bimbo Does your Mommy know, that you're going down the road to see a little girly oh Bimbo, is a little boy, who's got a million friends and every time he passes by, they all invi...

When the Lord made me he made a simple man Not much money and not much land He didn't make me no baker or legal charmer And the Lord made me a blackland farmer Well my hands ain't smooth my face is rough But my heart is warm and my ways ain't tough I gu...

The claim we hold is a good as gold bonanza Hand in hand we built this land the Ponderosa ranch Our birthright is this Cartwright bonanza We here belong and standing strong wrong ain't got a chance Day by day work or play ready side by side Hello friend...

I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses one for every time you broke my heart And as the door of love between us closes tears will fall like petals when we part I begged you to be different but you'll always be untrue I'm tired of forgiving now there's nothing...

(Burning bridges behind me) all I want is to forget you somehow Found some letters you wrote me this morning And they told of a love we once knew Now they're gone I'd burned them to ashes Don't want nothing that reminds me of you Burning bridges behind...

Tonight I'm burning old love letters photographs and memories of you Hoping somehow I'll feel better and that when the smoke is gone I won't want you Burning mem'ries teardrops fall while I am Burning mem'ries burning all the memories of you that I can't l...

Well my bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm busted Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I'm busted I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day The county's gonna haul my belongings awa...

Well have you ever passed the corner of 4th and Grand Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoeshine stand People gather round and they clap their hands he's a great big bungle of joy He pops a boogie woogie rag Chattanooga shoeshine boy Well he charges you...

Well, I hear that your new romance has faded Just the way ours did sometime ago Why, I've lost count of all the times I've waited For you to tell me that you've missed me so. So come on home and sing the blues to daddy When things ain't working out the w...

Oh mama I'm excited I'm almost out of breath And what I saw the light that made me run myself to death I was on the mountain side when I looked down below And glory be I thought I'd better come and let you know That we got company comin' yeah there's comp...

(Willie Nelson) I can tell that you're already growing tired of me You want no part of me even strated lying to me And if you started out to break this heart inside of me Congratulations to you dear you're doing fine. I pass you on the street and you don'...

Dance her by me one more time the girl you're with used to be mine I'll try to smile when you'll dance by I don't want her see me cry In the heart that you might know lives a mem'ry of long ago So for a fool that was so blind please dance her by me one more...

Don't let the stars get in your eyes don't let the moon break your heart Love blooms at night in daylight it dies don't let the stars get in your eyes Oh keep your heart for me for someday I'll return And you'll know you're the only one I'll ever love Too...

A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm A boy filled with wanderlust who really meant no harm He changed his clothes and shined his boots and combed his dark hair down And his mother cried as he walked out Don't take your guns to town son...

Tear a star from out the sky and the sky feels blue Tear a petal from a rose and the rose weeps, too Take your heart away from mine and mine will surely break My life is yours to make, so, please keep the spark awake Would you take the wings from birds so tha...

Down by the river there's a tree Beneath its branches you promised me Your love forever now that love's gone Down by the river I'm all alone. Do you remember that big tree The one we carved on just you and me That's only one things you left behind Hear...

I seem to see a shadow of heartaches and despair I seem to hear your footsteps though I know they aren't there Everything seems just the same except that you are gone As I walk again all by myself down lover's lane alone I hear the laughter in your voice a...

I'm drinking champagne And feeling no pain till early morning Dining and dancing With every pretty girl I can find And I'm having a fling With a pretty young thing till early morning Knowing tomorrow I'll wake up With you on my mind Guilty consci...

Lying here beside you in the shadows with your body close to mine I can't help but wish that I could have you here beside me all the time Knowing that I cannot keep you from your going when the day is done Makes me wish that I was tall enough to reach the s...

Everything I have is yours You're part of me Everything I have is yours My destiny I would gladly give the sun to you If the sun were only mine I would gladly give the earth to you And the stars that shine Everything that I posses I offer you Let my dream o...

Everytime I'm kissing you I think of you kissing him I came home and I found you in the arms of a friend I should have turned and walked away when I saw you kissing him You beg me to forgive you but I wonder if I can Cause everytime I'm kissing you I think...

Was I farther from your conscience standing face to the wall I suspected there was something that you weren't telling me And last night I learned the reason for it all I was looking through your window saw you kissing someone else You reached up and turned...

(I remember our faded love) As I look at the letters that you wrote to me it's you that I am thinking of As I read the lines that to me were so dear I remember our faded love I miss you darling more and more every day as heaven would miss the stars above W...

There's a family Bible on the table each page is torn and hard to read But the family Bible on the table will ever be my key to memories At the end of day when work was over and when the evening meal was done Dad would read to us all from the old family Bib...

If I was on some foggy mountain top I'd sail away to the west I'd sail all around this whole wide world to the girl I love the best If I had listened to what mama said I would not have been here today Just lyin' around this old jailhouse weepin' my poor li...

Here I am again do you remember me I'm the one you turned to when he set you free Now just like you the love I had did last Will you help me like I helped you forget the past Give me a little smile help me forget a while Just a little word or two I don't...

Out where the bright lights are glowing you're drawn like a moth to the flame You laugh while the wine's overflowing while I sit and whisper your name Four walls to hear me four walls to see four walls too near me closing in on me Sometimes I ask why I'm wait...

Well hello there my it's been a long long time How am I doin' oh I guess I'm doin' fine It's been so long now but it seems like it was only yesterday Gee ain't it funny how time slips away How's your new love I hope that he's doin' fine I heard you told him th...

Galveston oh Galveston I still hear your sea winds blowing I still see her dark eyes glowing she was twenty one when I left Galveston Galveston oh Galveston I still hear your sea waves crashing As I watch the cannons flashing I clean my gun and dream of Gal...

Well it's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up And stashed behind your couch And it's knowing I'm not shacked by forgotten words and bons And the ink stains that have dried...

Adios Amigo Gentleman Jim The sun settin' slowly beyond the last hill And the chorus sing softly to a world waiting still Of hearts weak and sadder and lights growing dim Adios Amigo Gentleman Jim. When he lift up his head and then began to sing Was lik...

I gotta get up and get some loving done my life's so poor ain't been much fun Well I got myself a woman and I know that you're the one And I'll get up and get me some loving done I've been sittin' in the corner of the world much too long And you came by a...

Well could that look I see on you mean that you might be lonely too Well you don't have to feel so bad you're not the only one that's sad Just look at all the hearts in town you're looking for the lost and found So someone special just like you might come a...

Well me and my baby are goin' steady we ain't married but we're gettin' ready To tie the knot and I'm gonna make her my own Now that I've found her I'm gonna keep her finders keepers losers weepers She's my baby she's goin' steady with me Well I've been a honk...

Oh the good Lord must have sent you down from heaven He sent you here to be by my side Well the good Lord must have sent you as an angel The answer to a prayer I prayed last night Now if all of my prayers dear were answered and all of my wishes came true...

I've been accused convicted and condemned the trial's over and now I face the end Is this your way of telling me we're through when all I'm guilty of is loving you You were the judge the jury all in one you found me guilty and now my terms begun I must con...

Have I wated too long to say that I love you Have I wated too long for my dreams to come true Each day here I pray that you will forgive me I know I was wrong have I wated too long It seems that all started the day that we parted I love you much more now...

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone Let's pretend we're together all alone I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go Whisper to me tell me do you love me true or is he holding...

Hello darlin' nice to see you it's been a long time You're just as lovely as you used to be How's your new love are you happy hope you're doing fine Just to know this means so much to me What's that darlin' how'm I doing guess I'm doing all right Except I...

Hello, walls (Hello, hello) How'd things go for you today? Don't you miss her Since she up and walked away? And I'll bet you dread to spend Another lonely night with me Lonely walls I'll keep you company Hello, window (Hello, hello) Well, I see that you're...

Here's to the girls who serve the drinks in all the bars They're seldom ever happy but they'll make you think they are They will laugh with you and dance with you and fill your glass with wine But they're the girls that play the same sad song on the jukebox...

Hey hey, good lookin', whatcha got cookin' How's about cookin' somethin' up with me? Hey, sweet baby, don't you think maybe We could find us a brand new recipe? I got a hot-rod Ford and a two dollar bill And I know a spot right over the hill There's soda pop...

Do not forsake me oh my darlin' on this our wedding day Do not forsake me oh my darlin' wait wait alone I do not know what fate awaits me I only know I must be brave For I must face a man who hates me or lie a coward a craven coward Or lie a coward in my g...

Well I got me a room in a cheap hotel my head was a spinning and I didn't feel well I laid right down tried to go to sleep but the band was playing in the joint underneath I picked up my pillow when I covered up my head But the band kept a playing and a sha...

You told me to ferget I love you but you never told me how I can't tell this heart of mine stop don't love her now You say that someday there will come a time when I'll find someone new But you don't seem to understand I'll love only you How can I forget y...

Your eyes are blue your kisses too I never knew what they could do I can't believe that you're in love with me You're telling everyone I know I'm on your mind each place you go They can't believe that you're in love with me I have always placed you far above...

I've searched through each moment of each passing hour But your memory grows stronger I find Oh they tell me in time I'll forget you but somehow I can't find the time They tell me in time I'll find another and happiness again will be mine Oh they tell me i...

(Hank Cochran - Willie Nelson) I've searched through each moment of each passing hour But your memory grows stronger I find Oh, they tell me in time I'll forget you But somehow I can't find the time. They tell me in time I'll find another And happiness a...

Today I passed you on the street And my heart fell at your feet I can't help it, if I'm still in love with you Somebody else stood by your side And he looked so satisfied I can't help it, if I'm still in love with you A picture from the past came slowly stea...

I can't stop loving you so I've made up my mind To live in memories of an old lonesome time I can't stop wanting you and it's useless to say So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday Those happy hours that we once knew so long ago made me blue The...

I can't tell my heart that you don't love me I can't say the love we had was blind It's true you left dear for another but I can't tell my heart that you're that kind Each night I hug my pillow I make believe it's you But it can't take the place of a lovely...

I don't hurt anymore all my teardrops're 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 But...

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...

I guess I had too much to dream last night My eyes aren't seeing very well this morning I just can't make them focus in the light I tried to walk but I can't keep from stumbling I guess I had too much to dream last night I drink some tea but I can't find...

I guess I'm crazy for loving you you tell me many ways that I won't do My heart keeps saying that I'm a fool I guess I'm crazy for loving you I don't dare let you go it's unfair this I know I don't care if it's so it has to be My heart keeps saying that I...

Tinted hair and painted lips polish on your fingertips I hardly knew it was you Shabby dress and worn out lock a shadow of the girl I love I hardly knew it was you You once said that you would have no one not no one will ever have you A life of hardship and...

You want me to come back and love you again I hear you talkin' but your words ain't comin' in You want me to be something that I ain't never been I hear you talkin' but your words ain't comin' in I learned the lesson you taughed to me I might be a guessi...

Well I didn't come in here to cause you no trouble And bartender just forget that glass of beer And I'm sorry old buddy that I pulled her from your arms But I just came to get my baby out of here Would you believe she's never been inside of a tonky tonk A...

Can't you tell by the look in these eyes of mine Don't you feel a sweet warmth when your hand touches mine And when you kiss my lips you can find it there too So if there's any doubt then it's time you find out I live just to love you Just to know that you...

I made a fool of myself last night Now someone new is holdin' her tight But there's no one, no one To blame but myself that you left and I'm alone. In anger eyes full words of shame Now all my lovin' you is in vain But there's no one, no one To blame n...

Well you're watching the clock that hangs on the wall your hand is on the telephone And it seems that you're waiting for a knock on the door And I might as well be here alone We agreed to try again you promised that you would We even moved away from our ow...

Oh, I miss you already and you're not even gone The time has come, you're tellin' me goodbye And I know I can't stop you if I try I've had 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 m...

And I woke up on the wrong side of the world Last night I went to sleep I thought the world was fine The day had been a perfect day and you were mine But somewhere between dusk and dawn the earth tumbled and furled And I woke up on the wrong side of the wo...

If tonight should be our last night together I'm not sorry that we fell in love at all If tomorrow sun should find me hurtin' for you I know That the price for loving you would still be small For I'd never know the thrill of your sweet lips And the chills...

Oh tonight I found myself forgetting you it happened in the arms of someone new I buried all the dreams I had of you so I'll be alright in the morning I'll be alright in the morning I never thought that I'd get over you I'll be alright in the morning cause...

Just let me love you as long as I live Be a taker and just let me give And I'll be satisfied with love Just let me make you a part of my dreams And my darling is strange as it seems I'll be satisfied with love. It's true and I don't know This love coul...

When he stopped sending roses when your certains are just supposed When the door to romance closes darling I'll be yours When bluebirds hush their singing when your make believe bells stop ringing When your sweet clinging vine stops clinging darling I'll be...

We're traveling down two different roads in world so far apart You want me yet there's something else before me in your heart You're wanting me to change my life the way you're living yours But I can't change I see no way you wanted me before There's nothi...

I said hey I'm a poor poor boy Well I got no car and my horse went lame I got no friends that I can name But step up close and hear me hon I'm just a poor boy looking for fun Well I've been around this whole wide world there's nothing I ain't done I phone...

Yeah I'm gonna change everything that holds a mem'ry of you oh yeah I'm gonna start in the hall take the pictures off the wall and burn 'em Move the chairs around take the window curtains down and burn 'em Everything I see reminds me you were here Yeah I'm...

I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter And make believe it came from you I'm gonna write words oh so sweet they're gonna knock me off my feet A lot of kisses down at the bottom and I'll be glad I got 'em I'm gonna smile and say I hope you're feelin...

Too many nights out on the town too many nights out playing round Too many places too many faces and I'm not sure you still love me And I'm not sure you still love me What makes your heart wanna roam is it that way we're alone Too much goin' you think you'...

I always tried to tell myself that you don't make me blue I lay and cry and still deny the fickle things you do I oughta run so far away I'll never see the light of day I oughta go but I gotta stay with you cause I'm so in love with you All my friends are...

I haven't come to please like all the times before The arms I used to need can't hold me anymore I haven't come to blame I do even ask you why This time it's not the same I've come to say goodbye No begging on my knees like all the times before Are just...

Well I've been working hard the whole week and now I'm a gonna have some wine women and song I gotta workin' each week but that's alright I've got five dollars and it's Saturday night Music and dancing pretty and fun it's gonna go on till way past one I'm...

I know that cheatin' river runs by everybody's door And I might just fall in there anytime 'Cause I'm the kind of man who makes decisions on his own And I'd go with you if I were so inclined Let me tell you this if I fall in that cheatin' river I'm looki...

I could show the world how to smile I could be glad all a while I could change the gray skies to blue if I had you I could leave the old ways behind leave all my pals I'd never mind I could start my life anew if I had you I could climb the snow-capped mou...

(Tommy Collins) If you got a Cadillac boy And a forty room shack boy A bucket full of money And a tree full of honey. But if you got no huggin' No smoochin' or muggin' Well, if you ain't lovin' Then you ain't livin'. If you're ridin' on the gravy t...

If you got a Cadillac, boy, and a forty room shack, boy A bucket full of money and a tree full of honey But if you got no huggin', no smoochin' or muggin' Well, if you ain't lovin', then you ain't livin' If you're ridin' on the gravy train instead of walk...

Will you stop by if you ever walk my way again And reminisce the love that once had been And if absence makes us grow fonder or it leaves us just the friends I'd like to know if you ever walk my way again. If you ever walk my way again please stop and see...

How I'd love to hear the organ in the chapel in the moonlight While we're strolling down the aisle where roses entwine How I'd love to hear you whisper in the chapel in the moonlight That the lovelight in your eyes forever will shine Till the roses turn to...

In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight Any place is all right long as I'm with you In a faraway land by the trophic sea sand If your hand's in my hand I won't be blue A way up on the mountain a way down in the valley I know I'll be happy anyp...

I guess everyone has their favorite singer their favorite entertainer Mine was Gentleman Jim Reeves Now I only know he was the great person the great artist and the great singer He was my friend I feel that these next songs that you'll hear in this album...

Is it really over is this the end of the line Don't tell me I'm losing the love that was mine If you're really leaving take some part of me So I'll always remember how sweet love used to be I wonder who's stepping into my shoes who can he be I can tell...

Is she all that you thought she would be the day you took her from me Does she still meet someone secretly is she all you thought she would be Is she fooling your heart the same way she fooled mine Do you have a feeling you'll lose her in time Though her l...

Is this me is it really me sittin' here crying Well it shouldn't be it just can't be me my eyes're lying Cause that's not you it just can't be you you wouldn't be cheatin' It's someone else yes it's someone else whose darling's leavin' I just can't believ...

(It all depends, it all depends, it all depends on you) Well I can be happy, I can be sad I can be good or I can be bad It all depends on you I can be lonely out in a crowd I can be humble, I can be proud It all depends on you Well, I can save money, or spe...

Well, it's a great life If you don't weaken But who wants to be strong? --- Instrumental --- Well, I don't guess I'll ever make a million I just want enough to get by Like a checking the town in two or three banks And a yellow Cadillac to drive. To...

It's four in the morning and once more the dawning Just woke up the wanting in me Wishing I'd never met her knowing if I'd forget her How much better off she would be The longer I hold on and the longer this goes on The harder that it's gonna be But it's...

I just stop here to drink one beer and get my story straight And to make sure there's no lipstick on my shirt I don't know why I worry so she knows I'm working late And on Wednesday night she always goes to church I've heard it said when people live togeth...

Just married this mornin'. How happy they are. "Just Married" written on The window of a-their car. It broke my heart To see them drive away. I lost the one I love today. Dressed all in white satin, White lace in her hair. She looked so lovely It wa...

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 open arms Each night in dreams I see your face mem'ries tim...

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 I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions so fine I cannot...

The ballroom was empty --- When they played the last waltz for my darling and me My poor heart kept wishing the night could not end But she love another and I'm just her friend I love her I love her my lonely heart cries But soon she'll become another man...

So many times I've told I was leavin' and oh so many times how I have tried But sayin' your leavin's so much easier than leavin' and sayin' goodbye Every time I'd start to go I wouldn't get ten feet I'd go runnin' back like a runaway child that's afraid to...

I close the office right on time Start my car and get in line And as I approach the Franklin Circle Stoplight My mind is workin' overtime It's once again decision time Which direction will I turn tonight Stoplight please don't take so long Temptation's...

Let me hear you say I love you one more time Before you go take my hand and walk beside me To the place you promised to be mine Kiss my lips for the last time and then darling Let me hear you say I love you one more time Just for tonight let's go back to...

Well darling this is my desire just set your little old heart on fire Do the things that lovers always do So put your little ol' hand in mine I buy you diamond ring so fine Then I'll build a bungalow for two Well closer my dear come closer well there ain't...

Let's pretend we're lovers again you're all alone and so am I Let's forget bad memries and then we can be lovers if we try One year ago I walked away from your arms It hurt you so I know cause how you cried But my pride just wouldn't let me say I'm sorry...

(You know that letters have no arms) I just got your letter dear sweetheart and darling I miss you oh so much Your letter has cheered me but I'm lonesome lonesome just to feel your loving touch Letters have no arms dear to hold me and kisses on paper are...

A lifetime isn't long enough to be in love with you To prove how much I care sweetheart the way I want to do A lifetime isn't long enough I couldn't even start In twice that time to tell you have the things within my heart If I could live a million years t...

Boots and Stetson and six guns and the lilies grow high They grow for a man with a gunslingin' hand who before his time must die They grow in the trail he has traveled a trail well spattered with lead They weep for the graves of the many men they weep for t...

And I wake up in the mornin' with my hair down in my eyes and she says hi And I stumble to the breakfast table while the kids are goin' off to school goodbye And she reaches out and takes my hand and squeezes it and says how you feelin' hon Then I look across...

I wanna live fast, love hard, die young And leave a beautiful memory I wanna live fast, love hard. die young And leave a beautiful memory Don't want sad singin' or slow walkin' Let 'em have a jubilee I wanna leave a lot of happy women A thinking pretty thoug...

Ten years ago on a cold dark night There was someone killed neath the town hall light There were few at the scene but they all agreed The slayer who ran looked a lot like me The judge said son what is your alibi If you were somewhere else then you won't have...

A Long Time Ago By Faron Young You used to hold me You used to kiss me A long long time ago As we're introduced again You said that we were old friends But you used to hold me You used to kiss me A long long time ago And to me it seems so strange...

It's a thrill of your kiss that started all this And like never before I'm begging for more Whenever the music starts to fill the air I reach for you and you are there Here in my arms again I hold you near suddenly it's oh so clear That love has finally co...

Love letters straight from your heart keep us so near while apart I'm not alone in the night when I can have all the love that you like I memorize every line I kiss the name that you sign And darling then I read again right from the start Love letters straigh...

On a day like today We passed the time away Writing love letters in the sand How you laughed when I cried Each time I saw the tide Take our love letters from the sand CHORUS You made a vow that you would ever be true But somehow that vow meant nothing to you...

Making believe that you still love me it's leaving me alone and so blue But I'll always dream still I'll never own you making believe it's all I can do I can't hold you close when you're not with me You're somebody's love you'll never be mine Making believ...

(God put a song in the heart of an angel and softly she sang it to me) You know I get to thinking a lotta times about back when I was a boy The old homeplace where I grew up of the days both good and bad My overalls were hand-me-downs my shoes they were ful...

I thought if I really try I'd get over you And I would spend my time doing what I wanted to But all my good intentions were lost along the way For missing you was all I did today I thought I'd get you off my mind find someone new And go out have some fun...

I'd walk for miles cry or smile for my mommie and daddy I love them I want them to know Now I feel my love is real for my mommie and daddy I want them to know I love them so In my heart the joy tears start cause I'm happy And I pray every day for mom and...

Yesterday as I talked with a friend in town I forgot to remember that you'd gone And for a moment I found my lips smilin' but a moment isn't very long And last night as I danced with a stranger and she held her cheek close to my own For a moment I almost fo...

On New Year's Eve we did the town The night we tore the goal post down We'll have these moments to remember The quiet walks, the noisy fun The ballroom prize we almost won We'll have these moments to remember Though summer turns to winter And the present di...

I'm standing on a mountain looking down on the city The way I feel is a doggone pity Teardrops falling down a mountainside Many times I've been here and many times I've cried We used to be happy when we were in love high on a mountain of love Night after night...

My darling my darling I wanted to call you my darling For many a many a day My darling my darling I flooded and flagged like a starling My courage just melted away Now all at once you've kissed me And there's not a thing I'm sane enough to say Except my...

When day ends and night falls my heart cause a dream a dream of love There's no dream like my dream and darlin' it's you I'm dreamin' of If my dreams're daydreams then daydreams I have many of There's no dreams like my dreams and darlin' my dreams are of yo...

Well this old picture is so faded you can hardly see And that smiling face there in the middle well you can see it's me And that pretty girl there on my left was mine to hold so tight But I lost her to my friend there on the right And that big house you s...

It's not the pale moon that excites me That thrills and delights me, oh no It's just the nearness of you It isn't your sweet conversation That brings this sensation, oh no It's just the nearness of you When you're in my arms And I feel you so close to me Al...

No letter today I have waited since dawn I've waited each day since you have been gone No letter today all the days are so long Why don't you write I know I was wrong Just give me one chance please won't you forgive I've loved you my dear for as long as...

The object of my affection can change my complexion from white to rosy red Anytime she holds my hand and tells me that she's mine There are many girls who can thrill me and some who can fill me With dreams of happiness But I know I'll never rest until she...

(Out of my heart out of my heart) You tell me you're leaving well why don't you go Could it be that your heart keeps telling you no The door is wide open but be sure when you start When you walk out that door you walk out of my heart Why are you waiting y...

Dear, I thought I'd drop a line The weather's cool, the folks are fine I'm in bed each night at nine PS I love you Yesterday we had some rain But all in all, I can't complain Was it dusty on the train? PS I love you Write to the Browns Just as soon as you're...

Oh it's funny how wine makes fools out of men around women And it's funny how women love men till their money is gone As I went down to Juarez town to buy my love a ring I stopped me by the tavern where the painted woman sing Says I I'll take one look ins...

(Pen and paper won't you tell me what to write) Pen and paper won't you tell me what to write I don't know I can't think and I'd been here half a night I don't want to hurt her but I love somebody new Pen and paper help me tell her we're through Shall I...

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...

Well I got cotton in the bottom land It's up and growin' and I got a good stand My good wife and them kids of mine Gonna get new shoes come pickin' time (Get new shoes come pickin' time) Every night when I go to bed I thank the Lord that my kids are fed...

There's a whole lotta people lookin' down their noses at me Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack On the banks of the river by the railroad track And we kept chickens in a pen in the back and everybody sai...

(Rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' rawhide) Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' thought the streams are swollen Keep them dogies rollin' rawhide Through rain and wind and weather hell bent for leather Wishin' my gal was by my side All the things I...

Johnny Yuma was the rebel he roamed through the west This Johnny Yuma the rebel he wandered alone He got fightin' mad this rebel lad He packed no star as he wandered far Where the only law was a hook and a draw The rebel Johnny Yuma Johnny Yuma was the...

(Please release me let me go) Please release me let me go I don't love you anymore To live together is a sin release and let me love again I have found a new love dear and I'll always want her near Her lips are so warm while yours're cold release me my dar...

He rode easy in the saddle he was tall and lean At first you thought nothing but a streak of mean Could make a man look so downright strong But one look in his eyes and you know what you was wrong He was a mountain of a man and I want you to know He could...

Rhinestone rhinestones for your pretty hand Daddy bought 'em from the rhinestone man Rhinestone rhinestones for your curly hair Just like the ones your mommie used to wear (Just like the ones your mommie used to wear) Oh mommie's gone so far away and dad...

Well I spent the better part of my life on a Mississippi riverboat I used to be known from coast to coast as the slickest gambler afloat I've dealt the cards from Minnesota to the harbor in New Orleans I made a lotta big money on the riverboat I loved a lot...

You have painted up your lips rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down Ruby don't take your love to town Oh it wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war...

Deep within my heart lies a melody a song of old San Antone Where in dreams I lived with a memory beneath the stars all alone It was there I found beside the Alamo enchantment strange as the blue up above A moonlit pass that only she would know still hears...

You can dance-every dance with the guy Who gives you the eye, let him hold you tight You can smile-every smile for the man Who held your hand neath the pale moon light But don't forget who's takin' you home And in whose arms you're gonna be So darlin' save the...

Well once I was a slave at the sawmill Talk about a poor boy talk about a poor boy never saw a dollar bill My work was so hard at the sawmill Think about a poor boy think about a poor boy let me have a dollar bill Well see my teardrops falling down my wif...

The seasons come, the seasons go We get a little sunshine, rain or snow Just the way that it was planned to be But there's no seasons in my heart While you play the leading part 'Cause the flowers will bloom eternally Your leaving will bring autumn sor...

Shame shame on you shame shame on you Took my heart as a token when return it was broken hide your face shame on you Shame shame on you shame shame on you Took my car and my money I tell you gal that ain't funny darn your hide shame on you [ guitar ] Sham...

Just because I asked a friend about her, Just because I spoke her name somewhere, Just because I dialed her number by mistake today, She thinks I still care. Just because I haunt the same old places, Where the memory of her lingers everywhere, Just because I'...

Loving me to you seems such a bother you made it so easy for me to love another So don't blame her for stealing me you let her Where your love stopped she went a little bit farther You changed so much I was more at ease with a stranger It wasn't so hard ou...

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 'Cause 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...

I can never remember the joy we once knew And I seem to forget all the times you were true But the moment you left me is still on my mind Some of those memories hurt me all of the time The days when you loved me I can never recall But the nights when you...

(Sweet sweet sweet sweet) Sweet and lovely sweeter than the roses in May Sweet and lovely heaven must have sent her my way Skies above me never were as blue as her eyes And she loves me who would want a sweeter surprise (When she nestles in my arms so t...

Sweet dreams of you dreams I know can't come true Why can't I forget the past start loving someone new Instead of having sweet dreams about you Now you don't love me it's plain and I should know you'd never wear my name I should hate you the whole night t...

Sweethearts or strangers it makes no difference now I'll leave it up to you Sweethearts or strangers I'll get along somehow what do you want me to do I guess I'll always love you no matter what you say By all the stars above you we can't go on this way Swe...

Take a letter Miss Gray it must go out today And I know you already know what it's gonna say It's to the one I'm tied to the one I'm leaving for you Tell her it's over and I can't help what I do Make it straight and to the point there's no use lying that...

Oh tattle tale tears are telling on you more than a thousand words could ever do Oh tattle tale tears that you try to hide are telling that you're the one who's crying inside While you were pettin' you kept forgettin' with tables can turn And that others ca...

I was waltzing with my darling to the Tennessee Waltz When an old friend I happened to see Introduced him to my loved one and while they were waltzing My friend stole my sweetheart from me I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz now I know just how much I...

Thank you for a lovely evening You were so marvellous you were so sweet Thank you for the lovely hours Each little part of yours made it complete It seemed tonight round about eleven I knew that heaven was mine And I'm absolutely thrilled dear That goo...

THAT OVER 30 LOOK That over thirty look sure looks good on you You're as lovely as I always knew you'd be That over thirty look sure looks good on you I wish it looked just half that good on me Chorus The years have sure been kind You should thank ol...

Beside the cottonfield I was born underneath the tree was my home A flock of geese flew over head Wind from the wings call down to me come go with us that's my way It grieves me much to see you cry I'll break a heart with my goodbye I warned you ahead of...

Tears keep rolling down your cheek you your voice gets talk so you can't speak Every day seems like a week and that's what it's like to be lonesome You get too blue to stay at home but in a crowd you're still alone You lose the will to carry on and that's w...

This Is the Part Where I Cry Life is a picture and I play the lead My biggest line was goodbye My leading lady just walked out on me And this, is the part where I cried I was great in the scene where she found someone new You should have seen my look of...

Our home is in shambles All I've treasured is gone The town seems deserted Everyone's so forlorn A storm came from up above But somehow it missed The Shrine of St. Cecilia The bells in the chapel Never ring anymore The clock in the steeple Can't te...

(Steve Karliski - Larry Kolber - Al Gordoni) This is the story of the Yellow Bandana A handsome young soldier and the girl named Rosana. Oh, way down west in the winds on New Mexico There lived a girl and the soldier who loved her so And every night neath...

I used to think all the girls I knew were just the same I thought the only difference in them was their name Since I lost you I realized I once have the best And I can't find a little part of you in all the rest There's not any like you left I was too blin...

I've cried so much lately that I've made out of list Of things to remember things to forget But my mind can't seperate all the joy from regret I'll always remember the things to forget Things to remember the day that we've met The day that we've parted th...

Well this is it that day is here The day I knew would come when you would leave me dear Well here I sit while teardrops fall And wonder why I care when you don't care at all But I'm a fool that way from a way back when A fool who take you back if you wou...

Three days that I dread to see arrive three days that I hate to be alive Three days filled with tears and sorrow yesterday today and tomorrow There are three days I know that I'll be blue Yeah three days that I'll always dream of you And it does no good t...

I've got a tiger by the tail, it's plain to see And I won't be much when you get through with me I'm losin' weight and turnin' mighty pale And it looks like I've got a tiger by the tail I thought the day I met you, you were meek as a lamb Just the kind t...

(Sidney Prosen) Till I waltz again with you Don't let no other hold your charms If my dreams should all come true You'll be waiting for my arms. Till I kiss you once again Keep my love locked in your heart Darling, I'll return and then We will never ha...

(Alex Zanetis) I'll leave the trail of tears behind me And hope that someday you will find me Through long and lonely years I'll leave an endless trail of tears. I'll search for love for someone new The whole of my life I'll find no one like you Until t...

I want you to take me where I belong Where hearts have been broken with a kiss and a song Spend the rest of my days without any cares Everyone understands me in the valley of tears Soft words have been spoken so sweet and low But my mind is made up love'...

(Walk tall) Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye That's what my mama told me when I was about knee high She said son, be a proud man and hold your head up high Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye All thro...

We've got something in common oh Mr Carpet on the floor Oh we both get stepped on each time she walks out the door And it's true that neither one of us can leave And we've got something in common you and me We've got something window shades now ain't that...

Welcome to my world won't you come on in Miracles I guess still happen now and then Step into my heart and leave your cares behind Welcome to my world built with you in mind Knock and the door will open seek and you will find Ask me who will be given the...

Well what does it take to make a grown man want to cry All it took in my case was the sound of your goodbye And what does it take to make a man hurt like I do All it took in my case was the thought of losing you That's all it took to make the teardrops sta...

(What) what will I tell my darling (when) oh when she comes back home How will I say that I'm sorry for the sings that I know I've done wrong (Oh she) yes she's gonna walking and kiss me (Yes I know) oh I know that's what she's gonna do Then she'll look a...

What's the use to love you I know that I can't win Since your love is with another it would only be a sin What's the use to dreaming it would only make me blue So what's the use my darling to go on loving you We had planned that he would set you free now w...

(Love you love you love you love you do do do do) Who wouldn't love you who wouldn't care You're so enchanting people must stare You're the dream that dreamers want to dream about You're the breath of spring that lovers gad about or mad about Who wouldn'...

I'm the center of attention in this bar room 'Cause I've got the biggest heartache of the year And each night those swingin' doors reach out for me and draw me in 'Cause they know each night that I'll come back to wine me up again Wine me up, turn me on and w...

They say don't go on Wolverton Mountain If you're looking for a wife Cause Clifton Clovers has a pretty young daughter He's mighty handy with a gun and a knife But her tender lips are sweeter than honey And Wolverton Mountain protects her there The bear...

You promised me love that would never die That promise you've made was only a lie Now after you're gone all alone and I For all that I've got is a worried mind. And when I was down, you've just let me there I needed you so but you didn't care You found...

The other night dear as I laid sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms When I awoke dear I was mistaken and I hung my head and cry You are my sunshine my only sunshine you make me happy when skies're grey You'll never know dear how much I love you please don'...

You're the angel on top of my Christmas tree You're the snow that glitters for me You're the laughter of children the carols they sing You're voice like the bells that I hear ring You're everything cheerful you're everything right You're my Christma...

You call everybody darling and everybody calls you darling too You don't mean what you're saying it's just a game you're playing But you'll find out that I can play the game as well as you If you call everybody darling then love won't come a knocking at you...

(You don't know me) 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 (You don't know me) No you don't know the one who dreams of you at night...

I'm de-abused and you're the abuser I'm de-accused and you're the accuser I'm de-missuesed and you're the missueser You don't treat me right honey baby, and that's so wrong. I've made a fool's heart you break this fool's heart While you're out cheating m...

Did you find a box of your favorite flowers Did you see a mark where I hand up for hours Did you find a note that was left beside the light You had a call from a broken heart last night Did you see some teardrops just outside your door I stayed there and...

Puttin' on your makeup I can see the lines you're tryin' hard to hide Lines that tell the story of your life with me that seemed to you good times All I've been to you is a thorn to me you've been a rose And you keep right on loving me but why you do I'll n...

If you think I'm gonna cry because you said goodbye You're right but I wish you were wrong If you think I'll dream of you and wish that you'd been true You're right but I wish you were wrong There's no used in pretending that my love isn't true If you we...

Your cheatin' heart will make you weep you'll cry and cry and try to sleep But sleep won't come the whole night through your cheatin' heart will tell on you When tears come down like falling rain you'll toss around and call my name You'll walk the floor the wa...

Today I burned your old love letters yes I burned them slowly one by one And before I'd light the flame I'd read them to try and find the wrongs I done The first you wrote me was the sweetest the last one broke my heart in two And now alone I left you weeping...

Will I ever get used to being your old used to be I watched you walk away from me so long ago I didn't know I loved you and I let you go And just to think that I'm the one who set you free Will I ever get used to being your old used to be I've gotten used...

Well I knew she belonged to someone else at the time But lonely look in women are a weakness of mine So I bought all she said about the love he never gave her And figured I just love her some and do us both a favor Just as I got up to leave he walked throu...