Lynn Anderson

Why do birds suddenly appear? Every time you are near Just like me, they long to be Close to you Why do stars fall down from the sky? Every time you walk by Just like me, they long to be Close to you On the day that you were born And the angels got together...

I once believed those mournful songs about when love is gone They say you simply can't forget but now I know they're wrong Forgetting is an easy thing for since you went away Already I've forgotten you a hundred times today Forgetting you is no big thing I do...

The dying flames of love are slowly flickering Upon the walls of dreams I built around you The snow will fade away leaving scars of loneliness And my world will be a million shades of blue My tears will fall on any embers you leave of the rose colored love tha...

While walking by your side along the way I spied A tiny copper penny on the ground Because your thoughts that day seemed oh so far away I handed you the penny I had found A penny for your thoughts, a penny for your thoughts I asked you not expecting the answer...

Abilene, Abilene Prettiest town I ever seen. Folks down there don't treat you mean In Abilene, my Abilene. I sit alone most every night Watch them trains roll out of sight Wish that they were carryin' me To Abilene, my Abilene. Crowded city, ain't nothin' fr...

Well I went to a Turkey roast down the street And the people down there are eatin' like wild geese So I'm on my way I'm goin' back to Alabam Well you talk about your people havin' a lot of time Eatin' up their chickens and drinkin' their wine I'm on my way I'm...

Look at the walls crumble down Look at our castle laying on the ground And I'm all in pieces, just looking around And all the love that once was sweet Now just ashes neath my feet And all the king's horses and all the king's men Could never put me back toget...

(All you add is love) Take the cottage (take the cottage) any cottage by the side of the road And you like it (yes you like it) so you buy it it's the house that you own You can change it (rearrange it) you can change it from a house to a home All you add is l...

Crying in the darkness cause I'm going through another lonely night Waiting till the morning brings you home Trying to believe you cause you say each time you're gonna treat me right And I'll never spend another night alone So I'll take another chance with you...

Ask any woman who cares for someone who lives to love him and loves to live And she will tell you that God has given the best at heaven has got to give Someone to love each day to love him in every way That's better woman's way since time began Ask any woman a...

There was a boy in Arkansas who wouldn't listen to his ma When she told him that he should go to school He'd sneak away in the afternoon take a little walk and pretty soon You'd find him at the local auction barn Well he'd stand and listened carefully then pre...

Every night and every day you go on the same old way Do you have to keep reminding me he's gone now And you're saying I was wrong but I knew that all along So be quiet mind we stayed away too long now Now that he's no longer mine you think of him all the time...

I've told you almost every bedtime story And you've heard almost every nursery rhyme So tonight before you'll go to sleep and pray the Lord your soul to keep Here's mommy's favorite story one more time Once upon a time there was a castle and in this castle liv...

Beggars can't be choosers anyhow Here I am I'm waiting at your feet again hoping that a crumb of love might fall Wishing you'd give all your love to me but then beggars can't be choosers after all Hand me down your hand-me-downs I don't care old left-over kiss...

I've been living in a penthouse With closets full of fine clothes. And where these things are coming from No one in the whole town knows. But on somebody's door chain There's an extra key. And almost every day he slips away to be with me. I'm the best kept se...

Oh, mama, oh, mama Who told you that lie? Whoever told you That big girls don't cry When I was a baby on my mama's knee She would kiss all my teardrops away so tenderly I'd get hurt and the tear would well up in my eye Then she hold me and tell me tha...

I feel so bad I got a worried mi-ind I'm so lonesome all of the time Since I left my baby behind o-on Blue Bayou Savin nickels, savin di-imes Workin till the sun don't shine Lookin forward to happier times o-on Blue Bayou I'm goin back some day, come w...

Go on with your new love have a good good time Take her out show her off fill her tall glass with wine Live all you can I'll forgive you when the last thrill is gone Just remember old faithful I'm waiting at home Bright lights have you blinded for a long long...

There's a house on a hill by a rolldown weathered old mill In the valley below where the river winds there's no such thing as hard times And a soft southern flame oh Cotton Jenny's her name And she wakes him up when the sun goes down and the wheels of love go...

New York is a long way from Texas Vegas is a long way from Abilene I spend lots of my time flying out to LA And if you've never been there you don't know how lonesome big towns can be Oh what I'd give to be a country girl Again to be with my people, my man an...

If your sweetheart sends a letter Of goodbye It's no secret you feel better If you cry When waking from a bad dream Don't you sometimes think it's real But it's only false emotions That you feel If your heartaches seem to hang around Too long And your blues...

If your sweetheart Sends a letter of goodbye It's no secret You feel better if you cry When waking from a bad dream Don't you sometimes think it's real But it's only false emotions That you feel If your heartaches Seem to hang around too long And...

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 becomes final today...

People smile and tell I'm the lucky one we've just begun I think I'm gonna have a son He'll be like he and me as free as a dove Conceived in love the sun is gonna shine above Even though we ain't got money I'm so in love with you honey Everything will bring a...

Dark moon a way up high up in the sky Oh tell me why oh tell me why you've lost your splendor Dark moon why is the cause your light withdraws Is it because is it because I've lost my love Mortals have dreams of love's perfect schemes But they don't realize tha...

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You been out ridin' fences for so long now Oh, you're a hard one but I know that you got your reasons These things that are pleasin' you can hurt you somehow Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy She'll beat yo...

The shutters are cracked and dry now, And the roof lets the rain seep in; The old four walls are ready to fall, And the sign reads, "This House Condemned." Once a mighty plantation, When a nation was at war; When mothers prayed for sons that went away, And cr...

I didn't fail I gave a tryin' tryin' to hold you to me I let you go we'll say goodbye but don't leave the leaving up to me Our great love we had is over all we cherished is gone Nothing ever last forever it's time for moving along But I can't go my feet won't...

Don't promise me you love me then go and leave me blue Don't say I mean the world to you unless I really do Don't flower up the things you say to make my life a dream Unless you really love me don't say things you don't mean Don't let me feel your loving arms...

Children are singing just outside my door Snowflakes are falling it's Christmas once more Everyone's happy but I feel so blue it's just not like Christmas since I don't have you So don't wish me merry Christmas this year for how could that ever be Tell me how...

Down in the boondocks down in the boondocks People put me down cause that's the side of town I was born in I love him he loves me but I don't fit in his society Lord have mercy on the girl from down in the boondocks Every night I watch the light from the house...

Easy lovin' so sexy lookin' I know from the feelin' that it comes from the heart Easy lovin' everyday's things givin' To count on my blessin's I wouldn't know where to start Everytime I look you over I know and understand That when you hold and kiss me I've g...

Everybody's reaching out for someone everybody's knocking at some door And long before I ever found you you're the one that I was reaching for Just like the trees along the river band lift up the branches to the sun above We spent our lifetime reaching for a...

The tears I cried for you could fill an ocean, But you don't care how many tears I cry And though you only lead me on and hurt me, I couldn't bring myself to say goodbye Cause everybody's somebody's fool Everybody's somebody's plaything And there are no excep...

Babe we've had our share of hard times But somehow we managed to see them through And at last we can say with this love there's a way Cause everything's falling in place for me and you Babe we came so close to get enough there were times it seemed we only trai...

Faithless love like a river flows Like raindrops falling on a lonesome road Down in some valley where nobody goes And the night rolls in it's like a cold dark friend Faithless love like a river flows Faithless love, where did I go wrong? Was it telling...

I remember it all very well lookin' back it was the summer I turned eighteen We lived in a oneroom rundown shack on the outskirts of New Orleans We didn't have money for food or rent to say the least we were hard pressed Then mama spent every last penny we had...

I wonder why so many times that made my teardrops fall Made up my mind to try to find the answer to it all I learned that love is fickle and it mostly turns out wrong Love isn't worth a nickel till the right one comes along That's love away and fickle fortune'...

I noticed how you smiled just now surprised at having seen How I ate up your flattery then licked the platy clean I've been so starved for pretty words however insincere Till as for me flattery will get you everywhere So brag me up and make me smile and I'll...

Well that ain't a gonna be as long now as it has been I got a feelin' that me and love are in tune And that ain't a gonna be as long now as it has been Some wilt the flower of love that's waitin' to bloom Sunshine and laughter just over the hill all I got to...

Patti Johnny Suzie and me we're gonna take a ride on the flying machine The flying machine it flies so high oh my love we can't pass it by Up in the clouds where the air is so clean that's gotta be the place for me We can make a love on the flying machine we'r...

Ain't it kinda funny they say a fool never learns play with fire and it always burns Don't it kinda get you down you treat me worse than before But I keep comin' back for more 'Cause you're a deceiver and I'm a believer it's just a game I know But I can't seem...

Don't look so sad, I know it's over But life goes on and this old world will keep on a-turnin' Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together There's no need to watch the bridges that we're burning {Lay your head upon my pillow} {Hold your warm and ten...

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal Frosty the snowman was a fairy tale they say He was made of snow but the children know how he come to life one day There must have been some magic in...

Tonight you're down at Charlie's Place again But it's not drinkins or company that you seek 'Cause Charlie has a card game in the backroom I knew you've been playin' poker there all week Right now I bet you're drawin' to a streight three over kind two paris t...

Oh the games people now every night and every day now Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean So they wile away the hours in their ivory towers 'Til they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine Lotten da la da da d...

I was a waitress in a barroom no future in sight And he was just lonely when he came there that night Then someone played the jukebox and he asked me to dance And when he softly held me I thought he's my chance To be good like I want to be that's what is all...

Happy trails to you Until we meet again Happy trails to you Keep smiling until then Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and think about sunny weather Happy trails to you 'Til we meet again 

I just moved in the new house today moving was hard but I got spread away Bell started ringin' and changin' that loud I knew I moved that haunted house Still it made up my mind to stay and nothin' was a gonna drive me away And then I seen somethin' give me the...

Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light From now on our troubles will be out of sight Have yourself a merry little Christmas Make the Yule-tide gay From now on, our troubles will be miles away Here we are as in olden days Happy golden...

Morning comes and Lord my mind is aching sunshine standing quietly at my door Just like the dawn my heart is silently breaking With my tears it goes tumbling to the floor Once again the whole town will be talking Lord I've seen the pity that's in their eyes Th...

He's a dream to a dreamer and he always keeps me dreaming He knows how to love me and keep me satisfied Everytime that empty feeling starts creeping in He picks it up and turns it into love again Ooh he turns it into love again and he makes me feel like a woma...

He couldn't do enough for me my wish was his command If I just spoke his name he was there But just like so many with heaven in their hands I forgot to show him that I cared He worshipped me my baby worshipped me Now he's gone and I'm alone wishing things coul...

You're here to tell me just how much he loves you And he'll do anything you want him to And you think he'll follow you to the end of the world But before you pack your bags, I'd better warn you, girl Other girls have been in love with him And the only chance y...

Well, since my baby left me Well, I found a new place to dwell Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street At Heartbreak Hotel Where I'll be--where I get so lonely, baby Well, I'm so lonely I get so lonely, I could die Although it's always crowded You still c...

I've search for words so many times that would best describe The thrill it gives me just to have you at my side But I can't find one single word that properly defines How sweet it is just knowing that all your love is mine Your love is heavenly sunshine heaven...

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 it means so much to me What's that darlin'? How am I doing? Guess I'm doing all right Except I...

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

(Here comes my baby back again) 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 ba...

Here I go again missing you yes here I go again feeling blue You're gone and still my crazy heart keeps right on beatin' true Yes here I go again missing you I woke up this morning and do an old familiar line Said this is it today's the day I get you off my mi...

See the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long it wasn't big And I laughed at him and he got mad The first day that he planted it it was just a twig Then the first snow came and he ran out to brush the snow away so it wouldn't die Came run...

[Honey, I know I've said it too many times before. I said I'd never say it again. I guess I shouldn't say anything at all since you're supposed to belong to him. But I just can't let you go without telling you just how much I love you.] SUNG-So that is why...

How can I unsay the things I said to you? And how can I undo the things that we used to do? Tell me how can I unfeel the way I feel for you? How can I unlove you? How can I untight the hold that you got on me? When you won't unchain my heart and set me free I...

I'm lonely and I'm looking for a husband like I do every Friday at this time A frisky thinking whiskey drinking husband I'm looking for a husband and he's mine If there's a tavern in the town then that's where I'll look for my man It's a payday and he's nowher...

I could just sit around making music all day long As long as I'm making my music ain't gonna do nobody no harm And who knows maybe I'll come up with a song To make people want to stop all this fussing and fighting Long enough to sing along I believe in music...

See the way he smiles and flirts behind him he's left miles of hurt I wonder just how many hearts he's told he would stay He wants a thrill and nothing more I know I've seen his kind before I can spot a cheater a mile away The things he says are so polite he c...

Today I sat alone at the window and I watched our little girl outside at play With the little boy 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 made my eyes...

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 found you just in time you brought meaning to this life of mine And made a broken heart a valentine at last my lonely hours are all behind You kissed me just in time to fill the longing in these lips of mine Just when I thought the sun would never shine I fo...

Maybe I hang around here a little more than I should We both know I got someplace else to go But I've got something to tell you that I never thought I would And I believe you really ought to know I love you I honestly love you You don't have to answer I can se...

Can't you tell by the look in these eyes of mine? Can't you feel sweet warmth when your hand touches mine? And then you kiss my lips; you can find it there too So it's there anytime, and it's time you found out that I live to love you Just to know that you're...

I love how your eyes close whenever you kiss me And when I'm away from you I love how you miss me I love the way you always treat me tenderly But, darling, most of all I love how you love me I love how your heart beats whenever I hold you I love how you think...

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 Even moved away from all our neighborho...

(Christmas toys all over the place Little Johnny wears a funny smile on his face. Johnny has a secret and the secret he must share He wants to tell somebody so he tells his teddy bear) I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus underneath the misteltoe last night She di...

I thought of leaving you a note but every time I start There's knowing blue enough to write this feeling in my heart Sometimes I packed to run away but where would I run to My heart would keep reminding me I still belong to you Many times I've had the urge to...

I used to know all those things like honeymoons and wedding rings The happiness that love can bring I used to know all those things The morning kiss and evening touch those hours of doing nothing much That special way a heart can sing I used to know all those...

I WANNA BE A COWBOY'S SWEETHEARTheart I WANNA LEARN TO ROPE AND RIDE I WANNA RIDE O'ER THE PLAINS AND THE DESERT OUT WEST OF THE GREAT DIVIDE I WANNA HEAR THE COYOTES HOWL WHILE THE SUN SETS IN THE WEST I WANNA BE A COWBOY'S SWEETHEART THE LIFE I LOVE THE BES...

Just a few short years ago I played a lot with Bill and Joe They seemed to think that I was quite a guy I could climb the highest tree And they would always follow me We had friendship I thought would never die Then I changed from tomboy girl And grew into a...

I know you're tired of being all I ever wanted You'll no longer feel the love I have for you What happens now what will I do with all the mem'ries And the dreams of all the things we'll never do But I won't mention it again I won't think about tomorrow Just le...

I don't know exactly where our love went wrong There's so many things we both could blame it on I only know these arms of mine don't want somebody new And if you take a step toward me I'd run a mile to you Your lips are telling me to go away while your eyes a...

I'm alright I'm alright I'm a little bit red in the eyes a little bit hurt in the heart A little bit weary in the soul but I'm alright I'm alright You mean I'm worth the dime it took call me on the phone Since when are you concerned about the way things are at...

Folks sit around with their face in a frown and gape about the way things they are They're happy to recieve but they hardly ever want to give I'm so tired of complaining and so in the time remaining I'm gonna do my best to make the world a better place to live...

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie Lisa left you years ago My eyes are not blue But mine won't leave you 'Til the sunlight has touched your face She was your morning light Her smile told of no night Your love for her grew With each rising sun And then one winter...

I don't want to talk it over one more time No there's not much use in talkin'. If you've made up your mind And darlin' I don't need to tell you why You know that I'm not that good at goodbye Please don't tell me you're leavin' if you go Just let me turn my he...

I know you know we know that I'm still loving you Time won't erase the years can't replace the sweet dreams that I shared with you I know you know we know that I'm still holding on To the sweet memory that always keeps me still loving you Forever for us was r...

I've been everywhere, man I've been everywhere, man Cross the deserts bare, man I've breathed the mountain air, man Of travel I've had my share, man I've been everywhere I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota Wichita,...

Seems that I don't think about you too much And I'm not too sure why I thought of you now Time has a way of numbing a touch But I still recall when you left me Just how much it hurt me to stand there Just watching you leave, I couldn't believe it was true Aft...

I can't promise you sunshine and roses cause I'm too used to walking in the rain I can't tell a lie and say I'll make you happy cause I'm not sure that I can love again You paint pretty pictures but I can't live on dreams I tried before but none of them came t...

If I kiss you will you go away Like in the game my mother used to play You're so much hurt I wish you wouldn't stay If I kiss you will you go away My mom would come when I get hurt at play She'd kiss my hurt and it would go away But now I'm grown and I don't...

(Silence is golden) If silence is golden like they say it to be If silence is golden then how rich I must be Once this house with love and laughter used to sing So much happiness through rafters seemed to ring Now you're gone there's only silence from the bot...

(If this is love the whole world is in trouble) I've been thinking quite a lot about you and I we don't get along no matter how we try Seems to me we're always fighting always hurtin' People say that this is love but I'm not certain If this is love the whole w...

Funny how a woman can come on so wild and free Yet insist I don't watch her undress or watch her watch me And stand by the bed and zip up as if she were cold And just lie down beside me and touch me as if I were gold. One night of love don't make up for six n...

You gave the heart you gave to me in person You made the vows you made to me in person Then when your love has lost all its glow you said your friend to let me know I wish you would have told me so in person You placed your ring upon my hand in person You sho...

I was rated G for goodness hided everything I could yes Great example for the weaker sex But I couldn't hold my baby he sure didn't want no lady He left me for someone rated X It don't do no good to be a a good girl there ain't no rewards for goodness sake I s...

Somehow it seems you always keep me crying I must look my best to you and I am blue You don't want me and I can't live without you It makes you happy to know you make me blue A smile on my face would be a stranger And I cry until my heart thinks I know nothing...

As I sit here tonight the jukebox's playing A song about the wild side of life As I listen to the words you are saying It brings mem'ries when I was a trusting wife It was't God who made honky tonk angels As you said in the words of your song Too many time...

Gather round girls you I grew up with my old friends that I used scuff with I need your tender words so kind You've all had your turn to cry but old friends stood closely by Friends of mine stand by me it's my time It's my time it's my time it's my time It's...

If you hear some footsteps walking close behind you in the night And you look around and no one do you see If you feel someone is watching you and there's no one in sight Have no fear it's only lonely me It's only lonely me I want you back again So I send my...

People see us everywhere they all think you really care But myself I can't deceive oh I know it's only make believe My one and only prayer is that some day you'll care My hopes my dreams come true my one and only you No one will ever know how much I love you s...

Jim Dandy to the rescue Jim Dandy to the rescue Jim Dandy to the rescue go Jim Dandy go Jim Dandy Jim Dandy on the mountain top ten thousand feet to drop He started giddy on a runaway horse ha ha that's right of course Jim Dandy to the rescue go Jim Dandy go J...

Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun now the jingle hop has begun Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock jingle bells chime in jingle bell time Dancing and prancing in Jingle...

Jemimah was a bullfrog was a good friend of mine I never understood a single word he's said but I helped him drink his wine You know we always had some mighty fine wine. Singin' joy to the world all the boys and girls Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea joy...

People think it's wonderful our love can be so true You never say an angry word no matter what I do And I have so much faith in you I trust you anywhere But the reason if they only knew is that we just don't care Just between the two of us let's give up this f...

You're struttin' into town like you're slingin' a gun Just a small town dude with a big city attitude Honey are you lookin' for some trouble tonight Well alright You think you're so bad, drive the women folk wild Shoot 'em all down with the flash of your pear...

When everything right seems to go wrong Your heart wants to sing but it can't find a song When it seems that the world has left you behind Keep me in mind. When you think that life is just passing you by You look but you can't find a reason to try When it see...

Have you ever listened close to the games they play or the little songs they sing Last night dressed up in high heel shoes and wearing my old hat My four-year-old said I want to divorce now where did she hears that Kids say the darndest things Have you ever li...

I heard he sang a good song I heard he had a style And so I came to see him to listen for awhile And there he was this young boy a stranger to my eyes Strumming my pain with his fingers singing my life with his words Killing me softly with his song killing me...

Kiss away kiss away guess that's all that's left to say Please come back and kiss these tears away Smile again let me smile again make my life worthwhile again Please come back and kiss these tears away Only you can change these sad and blue days Only you can...

Hey now what you're doing down there Sitting alone every night while I live right above you I can hear your music playing all along my body's swaying One floor below me you don't even know me but I love you Oh my darling knock three times on the ceiling if you...

Where ever you go, where ever you may wander in your life Surely you know I always want to be there Holding your hand and standing by to catch you when you fall Seeing you thru in ev'rything you do Let me be there in your morning Let me be there in your nigh...

Lie a little before you break my heart I know what's going through your mind you planned to leave our love behind You're wondering how to break the news to me I hate to see you worry so I love you but I'll let you go First you have to help me set you free (If...

It's Saturday night and my daddy's up late pickin' with my uncle, Bill The neighbors don't mind 'cause they have a good time sippin' On my pappy's still old brother Ben got a fiddle in his hands and Mama's on the mandolin when the music is right and the Band i...

Lonely women make good lovers They're all at mercy of a good lookin' smooth talkin' man Lonely women make good lovers So if you got a woman better treat her just as good as you can Lots of times a lonely girl will go out on the town With no thought of evil on...

I've had bad dreams too many times To think that they don't mean much any more Fine times have gone and left my sad home Friends who once cared just walk out my door Love has no pride when I call out your name Love has no pride when there's no one left to bla...

Livin' on free food tickets Water in the milk from the hole in the roof Where the rain came through What can you do? Ummhum Tears from your little sister Cryin' because she doesn't have a dress Without a patch, for the party to go But she knows, she'll get by...

City girls just seem to find out early how to open doors with just a smile A rich old man and she won't have to worry she'll dress up all in lace and go in style But late at night a big old house gets lonely I guess every form of refuge has its price And it br...

Mr Mistletoe everywhere you go you put mistletoe up above Every Christmas time you will alway find Mr Mistletoe and people in love He comes round at Christmas season he gives us all the reason To steal a kiss from someone that we know And although you'll never...

If I my friend can tell you when you my friend are wrong Not to do what you want to just because it's wrong Well then my friend impassing we've been friends too long And I my friend must tell you leave that man alone Your little girl might not understand and...

I seem to be collected and composed give people that impression I suppose But I know you don't love me anymore so my heart keeps walkin' the floor When I go out to places where we've been I never watched to see if you come in My fingers don't tap tables anymor...

My world was no more than a dream And waitin' on a dream can sure get lonely Your love just fell right into place And filled and empty space to overflowing, overflowing My world begins with havin' a friend when I'm feeling blue My world would end if ever I hea...

I've got a never ending love for you from now on that's all I want to do From the first time we met I knew I'd have a never ending love for you I've got a never ending love... After all this time of being alone We can love one another feel for each other from...

On his way his way home from Candletop Been two weeks gone and he thought he'd stop At Webb's and have him a drink fore he went home to her Andy Wolo said hello he said hi what's a doin' Wo Says sit down I got some bad news that's gonna hurt Said I'm your best...

Two times up and three times down Everybody knows that's the way to drown And then it's too late to swim into the shore And this'll be the third time you left me for her And there ain't gonna be no another time There ain't gonna be no another time Where ain't...

I see in the paper nearly everyday people breaking up and just walking away From love and that's wrong that's so wrong A happy little home comes up for sale because two fools half tired and failed To get along and you know that's wrong A man hurts a woman and...

Any more it doesn't matter Who's right or wrong We've been injuring each other For much too long And it's too late to try to save What might have been It's over Nobody wins Make believin' in forever Is just a lie And it seems a little sadder Each time we try...

I guess the excitement of keeping a secret the pleasure of playing a game Made us scheme made us plan to erase the middleman But now somehow things aren't the same Now nothing stands between us no wedding bands between us She set you free to come to me and now...

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee we don't take no trips on LSD We don't burn out draft cards down on Main Street 'Cause we like living right and being free We don't make a party out of loving but we like holding hands and pitchin' woo We don't let our hai...

When you found somebody new I thought I never would Forget you for I thought then I never could But time has taken all the pain away until now I'm down to hurtin' once a day Once a day all day long and once a night from dusk till dawn The only time I wish...

Everybody knows you been steppin' on my toes and I'm gettin' pretty tired of it I'm gonna hitch you on my head with a plenty corn bread If you had any sense you'd quit 'Cause ever since I was a little bitty teeny girl You thought you was the only man in my wo...

Our house is hushed with only lonely we had crystal teardrops for our chandelier Shatters of sadness won't let happiness get in Our house is not a home for there's never been love in Our bedroom has courtains of icy lace fine carpets where my restless feet hav...

Don't build for me no paper mansions that I can never call my own For love can't live in paper mansions that only stand until you've gone You paint the nicest futures of anyone I know You always leave me holding on to pretty words that glow You've built a tho...

And then she holds my hand, mm And then I understand. mm Her eyes afire with one desire Then a heavenly kiss Could I resist? And then she dims the light, mm And then she holds me tight. mm Her kiss, each fond caress They lead the way to happiness She takes me...

There was an emptiness within my life along about the time he came along And so I guess that you could say that when he came along he came on pretty strong Cause back then suddenly it seemed to me the emptiness within me had been filled And when I wondered wha...

(I was just your pick of the week) You only say hello so you can say goodbye While you're finding victims for your kisses sweet You pick out the hearts that break to make your ego high And I was just your pick of the week For you could see that I would be the...

This could be our last goodnight together We may never pass this way again Just let me enjoy 'till its over Or forever Please don't tell me how the story ends See the way our shadows come together Softer than your fingers on my skin Someday this may be all...

Somewhere out on the prairie Is the greatest cowboy that's ever been And when he lays his hands upon the ponies They shudder with an understanding skin And he says, "Ponies Now ponies, don't you worry I have not come to steal your fire away I want to fly wit...

How can you tell me how much you miss me When the last time I saw you, you wouldn't even kiss me That rich guy you've been seein' Must have put you down So welcome back baby To the poor side of town To him you were nothin' but a little plaything Not much more...

You've promised you would be true to me But we both know you could never be You've been putting you on since the day we met Promises, promises, that's all I ever get, that's all I ever get Then you promised me a ring A wedding gown and all of them things But...

I left a good job in the city workin' for the man every night and day But I never lost a minute of sleepin' Worryin' bout the way things might have been Big wheels keep on turnin' Proud Mary keeps on burnin' Rollin' rollin' rollin' on the river rollin' rollin'...

Put your hand in the hand of the man Who stilled the water Put your hand in the hand of the man Who calmed the sea Take a look at yourself And you can look at others differently Put your hand in the hand of the man From Galilee My momma taught me how to pray...

Midnight, and I'm a-waiting on the twelve-oh-five Hoping it'll take me just a little farther down the line Moonlight, you're just a heartache in disguise; Won't you keep my heart from breaking if it's only for a very short time CHORUS: Playing with the que...

If I listened long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried Still I look to find a reason to believe Someone like you makes it hard to live Without somebody else Someone like you makes it ea...

If you don't want me baby, if you're not satisfied If you can't care get on your horse and ride, ride, ride Since you got on your high horse Those fancy friends you've found You've had a hard time seeing me You're always looking down If you don't want me bab...

Love is a burnin' thing, And it makes a fiery ring Bound by wild desire I fell into a ring of fire. I fell into a burnin' ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher, And it burns, burns, burns, The ring of fire, the ring of fire....

Rockin' around the Christmas tree at the Christmas party hop Mistletoe hung where you can see and every couple tries to stop Rockin' around the Christmas tree let the Christmas spirit ring Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling You will g...

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 I still dream about that Rocky Top you'll...

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden Along with the sunshine There's gotta be a little rain some times When you take you gotta give so live and let live Or let go oh-whoa-whoa-whoa I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden I could p...

(You know Dasher and Dancer Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid Donder and Blitzen But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all) Rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it you would even say it glows All of the other reinde...

Born in the valley And raised in the trees Of western Kentucky On wobbly knees With mama beside you To help you along You'll soon be growing up strong All the long, lazy mornings In pastures of green The sun on your withers The wind in your mane Could...

Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree, for me I've been an awful good girl Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight. Santa baby, an 54 convertible too, light blue I'll wait up for you dear Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight. Thin...

Seven lonely days make one lonely week seven lonely nights make one lonely me Ever since the time you told me we were through Seven lonely days I've cried and cried for you Oh my darling I'm crying hoo hoo hoo hoo there's no use in denying I've cried for you W...

I don't want your lonely mansion With a tear in every room All I want's the love you've promised Beneath the haloed moon But you think I should be happy With your money and your name And hide myself in sorrow While you play your cheatin' game Silver threads...

You can buy a box of candy on each birthday send a dozen roses every anniversary But gifts are in the race and nothing takes the place Of a kiss and simple words like I love you You can take my part when all the world's against me Take my hand and lead me safe...

What's the most powerful thing in the world that everybody's always thinking of The whole world's built around it and nobody's happy until they found it If you don't know it by now I'm talkin' bout love If love was a bell you can bet I'd be ringin' it If love...

Sing me a song of sadness And sing it as blue as I feel If a tear should appear It's because he's not here Sing a sad song and sing it for me He's unhappy with me He told me so I'm unhappy without him And I still love him so Oh, sing me a song of sadness Pre...

Here's a song I love to sing, It's about the man that wears my ring. And even though he's tempted, he knows, I'll make sure that he gets everything. 'Cos when he's cold, he knows I'm warm, And I warm him in my arms. And when he's sad, oh, I make him glad. And...

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden Along with the sunshine There's gotta be a little rain some time When you take you gotta give so live and let live Or let go oh-whoa-whoa-whoa I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden I could pr...

Beneath this 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 speaks to me of flowers That will bloom again in spring When I was young my heart was young then too Anything...

There's a young man that I know his age is twenty one He came from down in southern Colorado Just out of the service and he's looking for his fun But someday soon I'm goin' with him someday soon My mom and dad can't stand him cause he rides the rodeo My fathe...

If I could find another pair of arms that could make me feel safe and warm Then I might fall in love again I just might give my all again If I could find someone to finish what you started If I could find two soft lips so sweet to love away this feeling of def...

Hear the children how they're a singing now everybody's happy and gay All of the stockings are hung with care soon it will be Christmas Day Tiny silver bells are a ringing up hanging on out as they sway Songs of the carolers fill the air soon it will be Christ...

Oh hear the chimes ringing it's Christmas again With tidies of peace and good will to of men So greet every stranger and make him your friend for that is the spirit of Christmas (Christmas time oh Christmas listen it's melting your heart) This I know love must...

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman Giving all your love to just one man You'll have sad 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 be pro...

The telephone's ringin' and it's three AM And I know just who's callin' from the same old spot And you're about half shot Almost to the point of crawlin' Why is it every time we have a little fuss You take your wounded pride And you head right straight for a...

Well I woke up Sunday morning With no way to hold my head That didn't hurt And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't Bad so I had one more for dessert Then I fumbled through my closet For my clothes And found my cleanest dirty shirt And I shaved my face And com...

In here the lights are dim but all around My eyes see things they wish that they never even found Your party's gettin' rough and this party's seen enough To know that I had best be homeward bound Take me home please take me home I'm not your kind of girl Take...

Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue ridge mountains, Shenandoah river Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country...

If you can find it in your heart to just forgive I'll come back and live the way you wanted me to live All I want is just to be your girl Please come and get me And take me to your world Take me to your world away from barrooms Filled with smoke Where I won't...

Kiss by kiss I fell in love with you beat by beat you stole my heart away Then lie by lie you broke that heart in two tear by tear I'm crying my life away Dream by dream my future tumble down hurt by hurt I weaken every day Night after night you don't come aro...

Tell me a lie say I look familiar though I know that you don't even know my name Tell me a lie say you just got into town Even though I've seen you here before just hangin' round Tell me a lie say you're not a married man Even though I saw you slip off your w...

You had quite good thing goin' with the girls you used to knowin' You went up and down your list just like a yo-yo And though it may be hard to stop it I'm afraid you'll have to drop it Cause if you want me to love you that's a no no I know you're used to goin...

Did you ever watched a youngster's eyes when you gave him his first puppy Or see a prisoner smile when the warden says you're free Or a sinner cry with happiness when the Lord just filled his needs Well that's what loving you has meant to me Did you ever stand...

There are so many ways to love a man; and so many things to understand. And if there ever comes a time he'll stay to change his mind, I'll need a way to hold him, and I can, if I know all the ways to love a man. But there's so many ways to lose a man, so quick...

Such a little time has passed since you went away Where are all these heartaches coming from? I can hardly stand the pain of missing you today And I know the worst is yet to come If there was something I could find to drive these tears from me Then I'd go rig...

If you care no more for me if your love is gone And if your heart is colder than the snow then go Why do you keep hurting me make the pain go on You must like to see my teardrops flow Well you're finally through with me and you're satisfied That you've hurt me...

Well there oughta be a law against what he's done Stole my heart and away he run Didn't leave me a thing but misery And there oughta be a law against the way he's hurtin' me The world keeps turnin' round and round but I'm just standin' still Since my baby lef...

It isn't as though I've never been loved or never been needed by someone Love's had its time in this life of mine And that happiness goes without have some I know how it feels to love and be loved I've had a moment or two But I can honestly say I have never lo...

This ain't no time to be goin' for a walk Just take off your coat and let's have a little talk Cause I found out where you went last night Let's talk about it now cause the time's just right I been talkin' to some friends of mine and I found out where you spen...

Oh you tell me that you love me You tell me that you care That tomorrow we'll be married But tomorrow is never there Many weeks now have I waited Many long nights have I cried Just to see that happy morning When I'd have you right by my side But tomorrow...

Last night he called from Dallas he was havin' a beer at the Crystal Palace He said honey you won't be alone for long I got to make just one more stop to pick up a ring in Little Rock And I'm gonna head this semi straight for home Fourteen wheels a whinin' fou...

Too much of you still on my mind thinking of you almost all the time Missing you since you left me behind I've got too much of you still on my mind When you left I thought maybe it was best for we disagreed and quarreled all the time Now I'm not so sure I sho...

Such a feelin' coming over me There is wonder in most everything I see Not a cloud in the sky, got the sun in my eye And I won't be surprised if it's a dream Everything I want the world to be Is now comin' true, especially for me And the reason is clear...

True love's a blessing true love's a wonderful blessing True love's a blessing wait and see When you've got a good man the world is in your hands True love's a blessing yes siree Some men love for money some make love a game Some men use their love a stepping...

If you see your brother standing by the road With a heavy load from the seeds he sowed And if you see your sister falling by the way Just stop and say you're going the wrong way You've got to try a little kindness yes show a little kindness Shine your light f...

Oh, when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof And your shoes get so hot you wish your tired feet were fire-proof Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, yeah On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be (Under the boardwalk) out of the sun (Under t...

Wandering mind wandering mind Wondering where you are and how you spend your time Wondering if you're wondering of the one you left behind My heart is weak but my mind's a little bit stronger I keep a tellin' myself everyday in my life But the strain of losin...

See the man at the door the one who made us cry He won't anymore for we'll be gone bye bye My little one you see he don't love you and me So raise your little hand and wave bye bye to the man He's the man who stays gone more than he stays at home The man you...

We can make it the world is rough but we can take it Cause you're my shelter from the storm now I've got your love to keep me warm now No temptation can ever shake our love's foundation We're strong enough to take it we can make it Now we'll say goodbye to sto...

We never talk there was a time when we hadn't enough words to say We never touch but I remember when you couldn't keep your hands away The thrill is gone there's no desire now we've got to feed the fire We've got to get it on again work it out together Learn t...

We've only just begun to live White lace and promises A kiss for luck and we're on our way Before the rising sun we fly So many roads to choose We start our walking and learn to run And yes, we've just begun, oh, yeah Sharing horizons that are new to us Watc...

Goodbye blues I'm not gonna sing you no more I finally got my hands on what I've been looking for I've found me a man that knows how to keep me Sittin' up on cloud nine Talk about the sunshine, I've seen all the time Man, what a man, what a man, what a man, m...

It's late and I'm waiting and by now he should be home I've walked the floor for hours listening for the telephone But he's always weak with dreams so strong and I guess he'll always be What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me Though I've b...

The time will come when I'll be free from this hold you have on me When you hurt me more than I love you You'll pay for every time I've cried just as soon as I decide That you've hurt me more than I love you Maybe mine next heartache will be the final one 'Cau...

The first time that you slipped your arms around me You swore that it was love beyond the shadow of a doubt I know your heart was filled with good attentions But where is all that love you talked about Where is all the candle light where are all the roses Wher...

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane snow is glistening A beautiful sight we're happy tonight Walking in a winter wonderland Gone away is the bluebird Here to stay is a new bird He sings a love song as we go along Walking in a winter wonderland...

I don't mind waiting up for you late hours and I always try to smile when you come in I don't mind getting up so early get the kids to school and you off to work again Sometimes a woman's life is not so easy and the man at times is hard to understand And I kno...

Smile an everlasting smile a smile can bring you near to me Don't ever let me find you're gone cause that would bring a tear to me This world has lost its glory let's start a brand new story now my love Right now there'll be no other time and I can show you ho...

You've come to tell me something you say I ought to know That he don't love me anymore and I'll have to let him go You say you're gonna take him oh but I don't think you can Cause you ain't woman enough to take my man Women like you they're a dime a dozen you...

You can get it if you really want You can get it if you really want You can get it if you really want But you must try, try and try Try and try, you'll succeed at last Persecution you must bear Win or lose you've got to get your share Got your mind set on a d...

When I said I needed you You said you would always stay It wasn't me who changed but you and now you've gone away Don't you see that now you've gone And I'm left here on my own That I have to follow you and beg you to come home You don't have to say you love...

There I come and bluebirds sing outside the grass is green But I don't care the sun shines or it rains Cause I'm happy as I can be as long as you will stand by me And nothing beside a heaven can make me change 'Cause you you mean all the world to me yes you yo...

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 on my own again You put me...

For once in my life, I know the meaning of happiness And what it means to have a dream come true 'Cause every day I wake up singing livin' on the sunshine love is bringing And it's wonderful knowin' that I owe it all to you At last I've got a reason to be a l...

When you're down and troubled And you need some love and care And nothing, nothing is going right, Close your eyes and think of me And soon I Will be free To brighten up even your darkest night. You just call out my name And you know wherever I am I 'll come r...

I've never seen the inside of a barroom or listen to the jukebox all night long But I see these are the things that bring you pleasure So I'm gonna make some changes in our home I've heard it said if you can't beat 'em join 'em So if that's the way you've wan...

I've thought the world for me had ended when he left So my pride let me start feeling sorry for myself I built the wall around my heart to give it security Then your sweet love opened up a brand new life for me Clouds of doubt were gone at last I saw the sunsh...