James Sonny

I remember when I made you cry ages and ages ago I'll never blame you for our last goodbye ages and ages ago Someone came along and took my place how wrong I was to let you go And though it happened only yesterday it seems like ages and ages ago [ guitar ]...

Almost you fell in love with me almost you gave your heart to me But the promises you've made you have broken and betrayed And left me with just your memory Almost your heart I did possess almost you brought me happiness But someone new came by and you lef...

Lonely Silver Dove Sweet Apache maid Lonely Silver Dove Sweet Apache maid Alone, all alone by the campfire She dreamed of her love, her delight Away, far away on the prairie Her love Golden Hawk shared the night Sometimes at night with the moon he wo...

Are you lonesome tonight do you miss me tonight are you sorry we've drifted apart Does your memory stray to a bright summer day When I kissed you and called you sweetheart Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare Do you gaze at your doorstep and pi...

Don't ask me ask Marie she's the one who wanted to be free I don't know why she said goodbye so if you must know don't ask me ask Marie I wish I knew what happened I I thought that everything between us was fine But you know something must have gone wrong...

Be with me Lord I cannot live without Thee I cannot try to take one step alone I cannot bear the loads of life anative I need Thy strenght to lean myself upon Be with me Lord when loneliness fortakes me when I must grive amid the fires of pain And when shal...

Because of you there's a song in my heart because of you our romance had its start Because of you the sun will shine the moon and stars will say you're mine Forever and never to part I only live for your love and your kiss it's paradise to be near you like...

If I lose my pay beg your pardon for things that I've said beg your pardon Well why should I worry the way that I do when you're in no hurry to let me love you Well I'll try for a kiss in the garden and if I should miss beg your pardon But if some sunny day...

Behind the tear there's a hurt behind the hurt a broken heart Behind that broken heart there lies a broken dream Behind the dream there's a fool behind the fool a wasted love You broke my heart and I'm the fool behind the tear Look here on my cheek there'...

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow tall plants come from tiny seeds you sow Low hills turn into mountains don't you realize big hurts came from little white lies Tornados once were soft gentle winds fire is just a warm flame when it begins But fire out of...

In my early childhood like all girls and boys I would cry over my broken toys The toy I remember was rusted in the rain the words of my mother eased all the pain The more we may stumble the less we shall fall There's one who was burdened much greater than a...

Lonesome for you through the day every moment you're away Long to see you smiling say I'm in love with you ever will be true Long to see your smiling face and to feel your warm embrace No one else can take your place when the day is through darling I'm so b...

Burning bridges behind me it's too late to turn back now Burning bridges behind me all I want is to forget you somehow Found some letters you wrote me this morning they told of a love we once knew One by one I'd burned them to ashes don't want nothing to r...

Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new For my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed And that's why I'm lonely all the time Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel And the storm's bre...

Don't be angry with me darling if I fail to understand All your little whims and wishes all the time Just remember that I'm dumb I guess like any foolish man And my head stays sorta foggy cause you're mine Well I recall the first time that I flirted with...

I once had a friend named Joe the biggest lumberjack in old Idaho He worked like a dog from day to day he drew ten cents an hour for his pay Come Saturday evenin' it have him a ball it'd ride him along the Idaho Falls But now old Joe he's laid to rest he fo...

Don't keep me hangin' on let me go let me go let me go If your love is through if your love is gone don't keep me hangin' on I'm a big fool to love you when you treat me like I'm your clown It's easy to see that you don't love me you just want me hangin' a...

Why does the sun go on shining why does the sea rush to shore Don't they know it's the end of the world cause you don't love me anymore Why do the birds go on singing why do the stars glow above Don't they know it's the end of the world it ended when I lost...

Higher than the highest mountain Deeper than the deepest sea That's how I will love you Oh, darlin', endlessly Softer than the gentle breezes Stronger than the wild oak tree That's how I will hold you Oh, darlin', endlessly Oh, my love, you are my he...

We'll walk the road of life together, day by day And I will love you every step of the way The road may wind beneath a sky of blue or gray But I will love you every step of the way So only love me and love me only And we will never walk with loneliness For ju...

I told all the stars up above that I'd never lose your precious love And I told them how true you would be now they laugh back at me At my old fairy tales fairy tales and make believe And I wonder who I deceive with my fairy tales You're gone but I say I...

Tumbling down from up above came a token of our love Tumbling down came the feather of a dove Wonderful memories such sweet sweet memories Keep coming back each time I think of you When we met we both could tell heaven had blessed us well A little token...

Give me time you must believe me give me time you've got to see I've never been untrue there's nothing I won't do To prove my love for you just give me time Give me time just for old time sake give me time my heart will break If I can make you see there's...

I'm just going through the motions of living She seemed to love me so how was I to know I'd be going through motions of living I've lost so much within I'll never love again I'm going through the motions of living When you see me breast in my very best I...

Gold and silver have I none I can give you more Gold and silver have I none I can give you love Don't have a gold mine or a mansion haven't even got you a finger ring Deep in my heart there's a little secret now I'm gonna share it with you Gold and silver...

Maggie lies under the cold freshy turnin' ground Everyone's gone but me I'm still around I hate to go yes I hate to leave Maggie might keep me Maggie might grieve Goodbye Maggie Maggie goodbye goodbye Maggie Maggie goodbye I miss you so I can't help but cr...

Happy memories happy memories Happy days when you love me can put my mind at ease Happy memories sweet sweet memories heartaches can't erase my happy memories Since you're gone as time goes by I seem to miss you more And to me each day gets bluer than the...

He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea He alone besides what's best for you and me He lights every star that makes a darkness bright He keeps watch all through each long and lonely night He still finds the time to hear a child's first prayer Saint o...

I see him in a baby's smile I hear him in the wind that sighs He loves me and I know not why he's everywhere He calls me from a world up there I seek him and I find him there He's in my heart I feel him there he's everywhere Through storms of fear and dou...

Heartaches Heartaches My loving you meant only heartaches Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me I can't believe it's just a burning memory Heartaches Heartaches What does it matter how my heart breaks? I should be happy with someone new But my heart aches f...

Heaven says hello every morning when the sun says hi I've come to spend the day Heaven says hello with the songbirds and the little flowers that nod along my way And when the day is through and I hurry home to you As the twilight steals across the golden sk...

Oh 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 art throughout the universe displayed Then sings my soul my Saviour God to Thee How great Thou art how great Thou art Then...

How many times will I believe what you say How many minutes can you counted every day How many times will I forgive you when you're cruel How many times can a man be a fool I'd like to leave you I'd like to go today but if I leave you I know I couldn't sta...

I forgot more than you'll ever know about her You think you know the smile on her lips the thrill at the touch of her fingertips But I forgot more than you'll ever know about her You think you'll find a heaven of bliss in each caress each tender kiss But I fo...

Each time you promise you'll be true I tell my heart to belive in you This time I say I won't cry can I get fooled don't I Each time you swear you'll walk the line I tell myself that at last you're mine This time I say she won't lie can I get fooled don't I...

Baby baby I miss you so very much It hurts me baby I just gotta I gotta have my baby back Can't eat can't sleep because I miss my sweet sweet baby I gotta I just gotta I gotta have my baby back Alone in this big town people all around laughing and talking...

I guess I'm crazy for loving you you tell me many ways that I won't do I may be playing the losing game I guess I'm crazy but I'll never change I've tried to let you go it's no use this I know I don't care if it's so it has to be My heart keeps saying that...

I know two eyes that just adore you I know two arms that long to hold you And I know two lips that wanna kiss you And I know one sincere loving heart that's beating just for you I wish your heart could know how my heart aches for you I try and try to tell...

Please forgive her when you see her acting like she doesn't care She used to be an angel but I let her down somewhere Don't condemn her for she's blinded by the deepest of despair Oh she loves me I guess too much and I let her down somewhere So trusting wh...

I do love you I truly do you do love me you truly do It's no secret it's part on every tree that I truly love you and you truly love me Dreams do come true they truly do wishes do too they truly do There's no love truer than my love for you I do love you I...

Oh I wish it hadn't happened I wish it hadn't happened It wasn't worth the pain I'm going through Oh I wish it hadn't happened I wish it hadn't happened It wasn't worth the price of losing you I fell in love with a new love I thought my new love was true...

(Your love holding to your sweet love your love holding to your sweet love) I'll keep holding on just to your love when all else is gone I'll have your love With your hand in mine till the end of time I'll keep holding on to you (Your love holding to your s...

I'll never be anything but in love with you The crown of a king won't mean a thing if I'm not loving you I'll never be anything but in love with you As long as I live I've nothing to give if I'm not loving you I don't care how high I'd climb or if I'd reac...

There's a new world somewhere they call the Promised Land And I'll be there someday if you will hold my hand I still need you there beside me no matter what I do For I know I'll never find another you There is always someone to reach across they say And y...

I got over Marie I got ove Sherrie but I'll never get over you Though I'm acting carefree any fool can't see that I'll never get over you When I'll find somebody new I want them to be like you But they won't ever do cause there's just one of you I keep try...

No don't you worry I'll take care of you I see the tears in your eyes and I know he must be gone Yes I know he told you lies and made you hurt all alone Now you're wondering where to go and what to do But don't you worry I'll take care of you You see the...

Ever since you went away it seems I age a year each day Don't know what I'm gonna do I'm gettin' gray from being blue Before too long I think you'll see just how bad you're hurting me I worry so much over you I'm gettin' gray from being blue My hair is tu...

I'm having a hard time getting over you And telling my friends that we're really through I cry my eyes out but bygone what it do I'm having a hard time getting over you A hard time getting over you I go on pretending you'll come back again though I know I...

If I have wounded any soul today if I have caused one foot to go astray If I have walked in my own willful way dear Lord forgive If I have uttered idol word or vain if I have turned aside from want or pain Yes I myself shall suffer through the strain dear L...

In mem'ry of Luisa I save each tear I cry I put them in an old fruit jar together with the falling star In mem'ry of Luisa each day that passes by Is longer than a year is long since my Luisa's gone [ choir ] In mem'ry of Luisa I wear this faded rose And...

Every day after day I go home alone to my blue room With the world locked outside no one can see me cry in my blue room For there are memories that keep haunting everyday of the past and our love So I hurry on home to be all alone in my blue room There's a...

Invisible tears in my eyes incredible pain in my heart Indestructable memories are passing in review Impossible though things may get improbable I will forget Indelible memories of sweet loveable you You're back again so I'll let you in altough I'm only s...

There you go baby here am I well you left me here so I could sit and cry Will you apologize what have you done to me Well I guess it doesn't matter anymore Do you remember baby last September how I held you tight each and every night Well you was so dazy how y...

It's gonna rain some rain some in my heart it's gonna rain some rain some in my heart I woke up this morning sunshine everywhere I didn't have a worry didn't have a care Then I got this note sayin' you were through with me Now the sun is gone it's a cloudy...

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

The way you fix my tie in the morning and always brush my coat before I go The hurried kiss I get from you when I'm leaving It's the little things that make me love you so The way you take my arm when we go walking The way you hold my hand when we're at a...

Just ask your heart and it will tell you what my heart want you to know Ask your heart and it will tell you it will tell you that I love you love you so There's no reason for you daubt me when I'm away from home There's not always time for writin' but you s...

(Just out of reach of my two open arms) Dreams you steal away from me dreams that just won't let me be Blues that keep on haunting me chains that just won't set me free So far away from you and all your charms just out of reach of my two open arms Each nig...

Somewhere outside the wind is wailing this time tomorrow I'll be sailing Oh my love hold me as if it was our last time Somewhere outside the bird is crying sounds like a million souls have dying Oh my love hold me as if it was our last time The trumpet sou...

Who in all this world did I think would be untrue oh oh least of all least of all you Who did I expect to laugh and tell me we were through Oh oh leat of all least of all you You who were so understanding you who said to me We would always be together thro...

Spring comes and goes many winters may pass My love grows and grows like a rock it will last Time can't go back it's love I must give The more of my heart you'll take the more I will live So let me live and love with you everyday my whole life through Let...

Love love love is a happy love is a happy song Love love love love love is a happy song Clap your hands snap your fingers find you a love don't you linger Put that ring on her finger love is a happy song Love love love is a happy... Hold your best girl...

Love is a light love is a light love is a lantern burning burning bright Brighter by far than any star in sight love is a lantern love is a light When two lovers kiss if their love is true their lips will create a tiny spark or two When our lips first met...

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...

Oh oh oh love me like that love me like that and darling love me forever Old man and woman a beautiful sight Still so in love makes the whole world seem bright Their age is a symbol of a wonderful thing the happiness true love can bring Oh oh oh love me li...

Love me like there's no tomorrow kiss me like it's goin' out of style Hold me like you're afraid I might get away Love like I've been gone for quite a while Take and wrap me in the package my future my presence and my past And love me like there's no tomo...

Why has the sun lost its light since you're gone ain't nothin' right I'm in a midnight mood Coal can't no fire light in my soul when I ain't got ain't got no love to hold I'm in a midnight mood Together we keep the weather so sunny and warm every day You...

The minute you're gone I cry the minute you're gone I die Before you walk out of sight I'm like a child all alone at night I stare into emptiness I'm filled with such loneliness The world goes from right to wrong the minute you're gone The minute you're go...

Well I live up on a mountain top in unended misery Cause my love lives upon the other mountain and she named that agony The folks up there don't marry us but we know our love is true So every night we slip to the valley and love till one or two Then I clim...

There's just one place for me near you seems just like heaven to be near you Well times when we're apart oh I can't face my heart Say you'll never stray more than just two lips away If my life could be spent near you I'd be more than content near you Well...

I need you oh how I need you the nights are lonely since we're apart I miss you oh how I miss you come back my darlin' and mend my heart I'm sorry dear I made you cry please forgive and forget the days gone by I need you oh how I need you come back my darli...

(Now and then there's a fool such as I) Pardon me if I'm sentimental when we say goodbye When you're gone yet I'll dream a little dreams as years go by Now and then there's a fool such as I Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you You taught me h...

Walking down the streets of my hometown I'm back again to end my roaming round I'm looking for the girl I left behind the one I love an old sweetheart of mine I only meant to round before a while I said goodbye my heart was young and wild I wonder if she mi...

My love may be over the mountain my love may be over the sea Somewhere I know there must be someone one true love for only me So I gotta go on (gotta go on gotta go on on and on and on) My heart says on I know someday somewhere I'll find my love So I gotta...

On the fingers of one hand on the fingers of one hand Life can all be counted on the fingers of one hand Count your little finger on the day you born See the fingernail it's protection from the thorn Protection from the thorn of life you choosed you as yo...

Have you ever been troubled you feel so alone hurtin' with heartaches and tears Don't give up keep trying Thou faith never fear Just look up there's someone who cares All at once an open field of happiness surrounds you lookin' up lookin' up to the sky Som...

Ramblin' rose ramblin' rose why you ramble no one knows Wild and wind blown that's how you've grown who can cling to a ramblin' rose Ramble on ramble on when you're ramblin' days are gone Who will love you with a love true when you're ramblin' days are gone...

It rains and it rains all day and this red mud from work in turns to clay And clay ain't nothing but a fancy name for mud red mud Red mud (red mud red mud) red mud (red mud red mud) I've worked and sweated all my life in red mud I'm just a broken hearted o...

Is there room room room in your heart for me room room room for a fool like me I still love love love you sweetheart can't you see Just open your heart make room for me Oh I was wrong to walk out that day can you forgive the fool things I say I'm sorry no...

The tears I cry each night the thoughts you're gone from me I guess you could call them scars of a love that used to be Scars you left on a heart that still is true Scars of love is all that I have left of you [ ac.guitar ] The loneliness of night the emp...

Shackles and chains shackles and chains Oh that's all that remains schackles and chains Now my home is where my heart is and that could be anywhere But my heart is chained to mem'ries and the thought you couldn't care For no reason I could tell you were af...

Just because I ask a friend about her Just because I spoke her name somewhere Just because I rang her number by mistake She thinks I still care Just because I haunt the same old places Where the memory of her lingers everywhere Just because I'm not the happy...

Oh somethin's got a hold on me oh somethin's got a hold on me I know I got a feelin' I feel so strange everything bout me seems to have change Step by step I got a brand new walk I even sound sweeter when I talk I said oh oh oh oh I got a good good feelin'...

I supposed I ought to say congratulations For you've won the only girl I'll ever love But I've hurt too much to face the situation So take good care of her take good care of her Just to be around her was my greatest pleasure She was everything my future held i...

Take me back I'm begging please take me back I'm on my knees For you to scold me hurt me hold me darling take me back When you belonged to me I had a jealous mind Too late I've learned that you were not the cheating kind Take me back... My jealous eyes...

You're the reason I'm in love You're my shining star above You're my every dream come true That's why I love you like I do Adam shared his love with Eve Some may doubt but I believe I would give my life for you That's why I love you like I do Man was...

There's always another day to hope you'll come home There's always another night to cry all alone The only way I go on hurting this way Is when I tell myself there's always another day There's always another day and I'm waitin' here Just hoping that you'l...

I rode all the way from California right bewteen my ma and pa When the rifles started firing we were three days out of Omaha Three days out of Omaha I was raised by an Indian warrior way out on some Kansas plain I guess that's why they call me red skin cau...

Three in a room three in a room you and me and your friend on the phone The telephone rings just one of those things you answer like it's just a friend But I know different it's him again we both know so why pretend Three in a room three in a room when I th...

Sun is shining birds are singing in schoolyards bright flags unfurl Things look so normal but looks are deceiving today is the end of the world People are laughing talking and laughing while I am losing my girl Why are they laughing they should be grieving...

All my life I knew Tommy Brown we grew up together in the same hometown I never thought Tommy was such a bad guy But folks would always whispered when he walked by Tom Tom Tommy Brown meanest boy in all the town Everybody said he'd turned out bad they said...

Tonight I found my true love tonight I found my world is you love You are here young and warm say you'll stay forever in my arms safe from harm Oh oh oh surely you must know how much I care Our love will grow if you'll just let me know you'll always be ther...

(A tree of birds) In a desert town the desert sunbeam down on a small boy laying sick in bed It burned his fevered brow so much she witched somehow But the sun was the shade tree instead I chanced the whippoorwill which throne is windowsill And overheard...

True love's a blessing true love's a wonderful blessing True love's a blessing wait and see When you found a right girl you found your priceless pearl True love's a blessing yes siree Some girls love for money some make love a game Some girls use their l...

I'm going down twenty feet into that muddy muddy water to search that old river bed I'm going down twenty feet into that muddy muddy water To prove there's no truth in what our friends have said That's when you cross the bridge the other day Well you took...

Tying the pieces together All of your trinkets I'm saving the picture that you gave to me Each night I look at them gently and pray that you'll come back to me Tying the pieces together trying to make our love last But little by little I'm losing living to...

UH-HUH-MM WRITERS SYLVESTER BRADFORD, AL LEWIS Uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh Well I see a pretty girl walking down the street uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh Well I see a pretty girl walking down the street I'm gonna walk right up I'm gonna say real sweet Uh-huh-huh, mm, m...

Waterloo Waterloo where will you meet your Waterloo Everybody has his day everybody has to pay everybody has to meet his Waterloo Now ol' Adam was the first in history with an apple he was tempted and deceived Just for spite old Satan made him take a bite...

We're on our way and life is so wonderful love is the way the path we'll find There's no mountain too high for love like ours to climb We're on our way your hand in mine We're on our way we wish upon a fallen star the world is ours we can't go wrong At our...

Oh who will take my place in your heart when I'm gone Who'll be by your side when you're telling me goodbye Tell me who will know the bliss of your tender loving kiss The kisses I will miss when I'm gone When I'm gone gone take your new love to the places...

All the sad songs all the bad words all the hurts and all the tears This is all that's left of us where do we go from here All our memories now are bitter our sweet days now lonely years This is all that's left of us where do we go from here Where do we go...

I'm on that long long road to Woodbine Valley where a broken heart can go I've heard a heart can heal there in that valley where the warm breezes blow Soft rivers flow No tears will ever fall the skies are sunny trouble and sorrow far behind And no one car...

Yes or no what will it be is it him or is it me In my heart I've got to know will it be yes or no Yes or no have I the chance please don't end our sweet romance Won't you please let our love grow will let be yes or no Though I know that I'd been so foolish...

YOU GOT THAT TOUCH WRITERS SONNY JAMES, RICHARD HOLLINGSWORTH A teenage touch A teenage touch A teenage touch Is a touch I love You, you, you You, you, you You, you You got that touch A teenage touch A touch I love Is a teenage touch Not too youn...

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 when we're apart You're the one I can't let go you're the only only world I know [ pian...