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It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag Rolled up and stashed behind your couch And it's knowing I'm not shackled By forgotten words and bonds And the ink stains that are dried upon some line That keeps you in the backroads By the rivers of my memory That keeps you ever gentle on my mind It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy Planted on their columns now that bind me Or something that somebody said Because they thought we fit together walking It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find That you're moving on the backroads By the rivers of my memory And for hours you're just gentle on my mind Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines And the junkyards and the highways come between us And some other woman's cryin' to her mother 'Cause she turned and I was gone I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' Cracklin' caldron in some train yard My beard a rustling, cold towel, and A dirty hat pulled low across my face Through cupped hands 'round the tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find That you're waiting from the backroads By the rivers of my memories Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind |
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| 2. |
| 2:15 |
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In the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainity I want to be
In the warm hold of your loving mind To feel you all around me and to take your hand along the sand Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind When sundown pales the sky I want to hide a while behind your smile And everywhere I'd look your eyes I'd find For me to love you now t'would be the sweetest thing t'would make me sing Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind [ ac.guitar ] When rain has hung the leaves with tears I want you near to kill my fears To help me leave all my blues behind Standing in your heart is where I want to be and long to be Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind [ strings ] Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind |
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| 3. |
| 2:01 |
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IT'S OVER
If time were not a moving thing And I could make it stay This hour of love we share would always be There'd be no coming day To shine a morning light Make us realize our night Is over When you walk away from me there Is no place to put my hand Except to shade my eyes against the sun That rises o'er the land I watch you walk away somehow I have to let you go now It's over If you knew just how I really Feel you might return and yet There are so many times that people Have to love and then forget Though there might have been a way I have to force myself to say It's over [ strings ] So I turn my back and Turn my collar to the wind Move along in silence Tryin' not to think at all, Send my tired feet before me Walk the silent street before me It's over It's over |
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| 4. |
| 2:18 |
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Way down in Bowling Green the prettiest girls I've ever seen
A man in Kentucky sure is lucky to love down in Bowling Green Bowling Green folks treat you kind better you think your own mind A man in Kentucky sure is lucky in Bowling Green you walk your own line Kentucky sunshine makes the heart unfold It warms your body and I know it touches the soul The bluegrass is fine Kentucky owns my mind Fields down in Bowling Green have the softest grass I've ever seen A man in Kentucky sure is lucky to lie down in Bowling Green [ strings - dobro ] Kentucky sunshine makes the heart unfold... Bowling Green girls treat you right they wear dresses cut country tight A man in Kentucky sure is lucky he seen the Bowling Green night A man in Kentucky well he sure is lucky he seen the Bowling Green night A man in Kentucky well he sure is lucky he seen the Bowling Green night |
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| 5. |
| 2:10 |
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I'd like to stay with you for a while but I have promisses to keep
I could be happy here with you but I'm a so wild oat to reap My strenght tells me my weakness shows you make me think of coats and ties Of babies home security and jobs that last from nine to five I could conjure up the constant state of happiness But I know that I am just another man And in knowing that I know that I'll get more or less what I can get So I'll do what I can I have many steps to take reckless steps I cannot share A mountain waits for me to climb and I must climb because it's there I could conjure up... But if you should not let me go and if you want me as I am And for a while I'll be a God instead of just another man mhm |
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| 2:33 |
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You're my world you're every breath I take you're my world you're every move I make
Other eyes see star up in the skies but for me they shine within your eyes As the trees reach for the sun above so my arms reach out to you for love With your hand resting in mine I feel a power so divine You're my world you are my night and day You're my world you're every breath I breathe If our love ceased to be then it's the end of my world for me [ strings ] With your hand resting in mine... |
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| 2:23 | 
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| 8. |
| 2:13 |
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I spend the night in a chair thinkin' she'll be there but she never comes
And then I wake up and wiped the sleep from my eyes And I rise to face another day without her It's just no good anymore when you walk through the door of an empty room And then you go inside and sat at the table for one It's no fun when you spend the day without her We burst the pretty baloon it took us to the Moon Such a beautiful thing bit it's ended now But it sounds like a lie if I say I'd rather die than live without her [ ac.guitar - strings ] I spend the night in a chair... |
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| 9. |
| 3:01 |
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(Johnny Cymbal - Michael Lendell)
Nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the morning When through a sleepy haze I see her lyin' there Soft as the rain that falls on summer flowers Warm as the sunlight shinin' on her golden hair, mhm. When I wake and see her there so close beside me I want to take her in my arms The ache is there so deep inside me And nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the morning. Chasin' a rainbow in the dream so far away And when she turns to touch it I kiss her face so softly My Mary wakes to love another day, mhm. My Mary's there in sunny days or stormy weather She doesn't care 'cause right or wrong The love we share we share together And nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the evening. Kissed by the shades of night and starlight on her hair And as we walk I hold her close beside me Oh, how tomorrows for lifetime we'll share, mhm. Nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the morning Nothing's quite as pretty as Mary in the evening... |
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| 10. |
| 2:39 |
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Love me as though there were no tomorrow take me out of this world tonight
Take me make me forget my sorrow So when I wake tomorrow I'll know our love was right Kiss me as though it were now or never teach me all that our heart should know Just love me as though there were no tomorrow Oh my darling love me don't ever let me go [ piano ] Please love me as though there were no tomorrow Oh my darling love me don't ever let me go |
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| 2:51 |
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