Simply Country [compilation] (2007) by Various Artists (보컬) on maniadb.com

I wandered so aimless life filled with sin
I wouldn't let my dear saviour in
Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night
Praise the Lord I saw the light.

I saw the light I saw the light
No more darkness no more night
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
Praise the Lord I saw the light.

Just like a blind man I wandered along
Worries and fears I claimed for my own
Then like the blind man that God gave back his sight
Praise the Lord I saw the light.

I saw the light I saw the light
No more darkness no more night
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
Praise the Lord I saw the light.

I was a fool to wander and a-stray
Straight is the gate and narrow the way
Now I have traded the wrong for the right
Praise the Lord I saw the light.

I saw the light I saw the light
No more darkness no more night
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
Praise the Lord I saw the light.

Written by Hal Willis and Ginger Willis
(As recorded by Patsy Cline, 12/13/57)

Walk walk walk
Walk walk walk
A walkin' dream
I dreamed about you
A walkin' dream
Can't do without you
Lovely dream
Just can't forget you
'Cause your so dreamy
Peach n' creamy
Walkin' dream
Now keep on a walkin'
Keep on a talkin'
And I'll do my best
To make the rest
Of this lovely dream come true
A walkin' dream
I want you near me
Walkin' dream
Can't you hear me
A lovely dream
A won't you love me
'Cause your so lovey
Turtle dovey
A walkin' dream
A walkin' dream
My heart is yearnin'
Walkin' dream
My lips are burnin'
A lovely dream
Of love I'm learnin'
Cause your surprisin'
Tantilizin', walkin' dream
Now keep on a walkin'
Keep on a talkin'
And I'll do my best
To make the rest
Of this lovely dream come true
A walkin' dream
I want you near me
A walkin' dream
Can't you hear me
Lovely dream
Won't you love me
'Cause your so lovey
Turtle dovey, walkin' dream
Cause your so lovey
Turtle dovey, walkin' dream

I hear the train a comin'
It's rolling round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when,
I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone..

When I was just a baby my mama told me "Son,
Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns."
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry..

I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car
They're probably drinkin' coffee and smoking big cigars.
Well I know I had it coming, I know I can't be free
But those people keep a movin'
And that's what tortures me...

Well if they freed me from this prison,
If that railroad train was mine
I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line
Far from Folsom prison, that's where I want to stay
And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away...

You've painted up your lips
And rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplating
Going out somewhere
The shadow on the wall
Tells me the sun is going down
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town

It wasn't me
That started that crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go
And do my patriotic chore
And yes, it's true that
I'm not the man I used to be
Oh, Ruby I still need some company


It's hard to love a man
Whose legs are bent and paralyzed
That my wants and needs of a woman of your age
Ruby, I realized
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town

She's leaving now cause
I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I've heard it
Some 100 times before
And if I could move I'd get my gun
And put her in the ground
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town
Oh Ruby for God's sake turn around

I beg your pardon I never
promised you a
rose garden
along with the sunshine
there's got to be
a little rain sometimes
when you take you got to
give so live and
let live or let go
I beg your pardon I never
promised you a
rose garden
I could promise you things
like big diamond rings
but you don't find roses
growing on stocks
of clover so you better think it over
well if sweet talking
you would make it come true
I'd give you the world
right now on a silver platter
but what would it matter
so smile for a while
and let's be jolly
love shouldn't be so melancholy
come along and share
the good times
while we can
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
along with the sunshine
there's got to be
a little rain sometimes
I beg your pardon
I never promised you
a rose garden
I could sing you a tune and
promise you the moon
but if that's what
it takes to hold you I'd
just as soon let you go
but there's one thing
I want you to know
you better look before you
leap still water
runs deep and there
won't always be someone
there to pull you out
and you know what
I'm talkin' about
so smile for a while and
let's be jolly love
shouldn't be so
melancholy
come on and share
the good times while we can
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a
rose garden
along with the sunshine
there's got to be
a little rain sometimes
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a
rose garden

Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let, fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

Third boxcar, midnight train
Destination, Bangor, Maine.
Old worn out clothes and shoes,
I don't pay no union dues,
I smoke old stogies I have found
Short, but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

I know every engineer on every train
All of their children, and all of their names
And every handout in every town
And every lock that ain't locked
When no one's around.

I sing,
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

I have the invitation that you sent me
You wanted me to see you change your name
I couldn't stand to see you wed another
But dear I hope you're happy just the same.

Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
That should be ringing now for you and me
Down the aisle with someone else you're walking
Those wedding bells will never ring for me.

--- Instrumental ---

I planned a little cottage in the valley
I even brought a little band of gold
I thought someday I'll place it on your finger
But now the future looks so dark and cold.

I fancy that I see a bunch of roses
A blossom from an orange tree in your hair
And while the organ plays I'll love you truly
Please let me pretend that I am there.

Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
Ever since the day you set me free
I knew someday that you would wed another
But wedding bells will never ring for me...

Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter,
In a cabin, on a hill in butcher holler,
We were poor, but we had love,
That's the one thing daddy made sure of,
He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar.

My daddy worked all night in the Van Lear Cole Mines,
All day long in a field a-hoein' corn,
Mommy rocked the babies at night,
and read The Bible by the coal-oil light,
And everything would start all over come break of mornin'.

Daddy loved and raised 8 kids on a miner' pay,
Mommy scrubbed our clothes on a wash board every day,
Why, I seen her fingers bleed, to complain, there was no need,
She'd smile in mommy's understanding way.

In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear,
But in the winter time, we'd all get a brand new pair,
From a mail-order catalog, money mad from selling a hog,
Daddy all ways managed to get the money somewhere.

Yeah, I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter,
I remember well, the well where I drew water,
The work we done was hard, at night we'd sleep 'cause we were tired,
I never thought of leavin' Butcher Holler.

Well, a lot of things have changed since way back then,
And it's so good to be back home again,
Not much left but the floor, nothin' lives here anymore,
'Cept the memories of a coal miner's daughter.

Please help me I'm falling in love with you
Close the door to temptation don't let me walk through
Turn away from me darling I'm begging you to
Please help me I'm falling in love with you
I belong to another whose arms have grown cold
But I promised forever to have and to hold
I can never be free dear but when I'm with you
I know that I'm losing the will to be true

Please help me I'm falling and that would be sin
Close the door to temptation don't let me walk in
For I mustn't want you but darling I do please help me I'm falling in love with you
Please help me I'm falling in love with you

I was all right for a while
I could smile for a while
But when I saw you last night
You held my hand so tight
When you stopped to say hello
And though you wished me well
You couldn't tell
That I'd been


Crying over you
Crying over you
Then you said So long
Left me standing all alone
Alone and crying, crying, crying, crying


It's hard to understand
That the touch of your hand
Can start me crying


I thought that I was over you
But it's true, so true
I love you even more
Than I did before
But darling, what can I do
Oh you don't love me
And I'll always be


Crying over you
Crying over you
Yes, now you're gone
And from this moment on
I'll be crying, crying, crying, crying


I'm crying, crying
Oh-oh-oh-over you

Now I lay me down to sleep
And if I sleep, perhaps I'll dream.
If I dream, I'll be with you,
In the shelter of your arms.
I pray that god will lengthen night,
And grant me time before the light.
For the light of day will take me
From the shelter of your arms.

And though I know it's just a dream,
A dream that soon must end,
The arms I feel, I know are real,
And I'm happy, once again.

If I die, while I am asleep,
I pray my dreams he'll let me keep,
And carry me through eternity
In the shelter of your arms.

And though I know it's just a dream,
A dream that soon must end,
The arms I feel, I know are real
And I'm happy, once again.

And if I die while I am asleep,
I pray my dreams he'll let me keep,
And carry me through eternity
In the shelter of your arms

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, down the bayou
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh, my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou

Jambalaya, a-craw fish pie and-a file gumbo
Yeah, tonight I'm gonna see my machez amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh
Son of a gun, we're gonna have a little fun on the bayou

Thibodeaux, Fontainbleau, the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk, come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style, go hog wild, me oh, my oh
Son of a gun, we're gonna have a little fun on the bayou

Jambalaya, a-craw fish pie and-a file gumbo
Well, tonight I'm gonna see my machez amio
Pick guitar, gonna fill fruit jar and be gay-oh
Son of a gun, gonna have big fun on the bayou

(There goes my everything)

I hear footsteps slowly walkin',
As they gently walk across a lonely floor.
And a voice is softly sayin',
"Darling, this will be goodbye forever more."

There goes my reason for livin'.
There goes the one of my dreams.
There goes my only possesion.
There goes my everything.

As my mem'ry turns back the pages,
I can see the happy years we had before.
Now the love that kept this ol' heart beatin',
Has been shattered by the closin' of the door.

There goes my reason for livin'.
There goes the one of my dreams.
There goes my only possesion.
There goes my everything.

There goes my reason for livin'.
There goes the one of my dreams.
There goes my only possesion.
There goes my everything.

There goes my only possesion.
There goes my everything...

I was dancing with my darling
to the Tennesse Waltz
when an old friend I happened to see

duced her to my loved one
and while they're dancing
my friend stole my sweetheart from me

I remember the night and the Tennesse Waltz
Now I know just how much I have lost
yes I lost my little darling
the night they were playing
the beautiful Tennesse Waltz

I love you because you understand dear
Every little thing I try to do
Your always there to lend a helping hand dear
But most of all I love you cause you're you

No matter what may be the style or season
I know your love will always see me through
I love you for a hundred- thousand reasons
But most of all I love you cause you're you

I love you because my heart is lighter
Every time I'm walking by your side
I love you because the future's brighter
The glow to happiness you've opened wide

No matter what the world may say about me
I know your heart will always be true
I love you for the way you never doubt me
But most of all I love you cause you're you

I can't stop loving you so I've made up my mind
To live in memory of old lonesome times
I can't stop wanting you it's useless to say
So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday

Those happy hours that we once knew though long ago they still make me blue
They say that time heels a broken heart
But time has stood still since we've been apart
I can't stop loving you...

Faithless love like a river flows.
Raindrops falling on a "broken rose"
Down in some valley where nobody goes.

And the night falls in
Like a cold dark wind.
Faithless love like a river flows.

Faithless love, where did I go wrong
Was it telling stories in a heartbreak song?
Where nobody's right, nobody was wrong.

Faithless love will find you,
And its misery entwine you.
Faithless love, where did I go wrong.

Well I guess I'm standing in the hall of broken dreams;
That's the way it sometimes goes.
And every new love never turns out like it seems;
Guess the feeling comes and goes.

Faithless love like a river flows.
Raindrops falling on a "broken rose"
Down in some valley where nobody goes.

Faithless love has found me,
Thrown its chilly arms around me.
Faithless love like a river flows.

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
caus 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 your love

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everythings the same as it was
I can't understand no I can't understand
How life goes on the way it does

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don't they know it's the end of the world
it ended when you said good bye

Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?

Don't they Know it's the end of the world
it ended when you said good bye

I want to tell you all the story bout the Harper Valley widowed wife
Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High
Well, her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play
And she said, "Mom, I got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA"
Well, the note said, "Mrs. Johnson, you're wearin' your dresses way too high
It's reported you've been drinkin' and a runnin' round with men and goin' wild
And we don't believe you oughta be a bringin' up your little girl this way"
And it was signed by the Secretary, Harper Valley PTA
Well it happened that the PTA was gonna meet that very afternoon
And they were sure surprised when Mrs. Johnson wore her miniskirt into the room
And as she walked up to the blackboard I can still recall the words she had to say
She said, "I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley PTA
Well, there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there and seven times he's asked me for a date
And Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lotta ice whenever he's away
And Mr. Baker, can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town?
And shouldn't Widow Jones be told to keep
Her window shades all pulled completely down?
Well, Mr. Harper couldn't be here cause he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar again
And if you smell Shirley Thompson's breath you'll find she's had a little nip of gin
And then you have the nerve to tell me you think that as a mother I'm not fit
Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites!"
No, I wouldn't put you on because it really did it happened just this way
The day my mama socket it to the Harper Valley PTA
The day my mama socket it to the Harper Valley PTA

You wined me and dined me
When I was your girl
Promised if I'd be your wife
You'd show me the world

But all I've seen of this old world
Is a bed and a doctor bill
I'm tearin' down your brooder house
'Cause now I've got the pill.

All these years I've stayed at home
While you had all your fun
And every year thats gone by
Another babys come.

There's a gonna be some changes made
Right here on nursery hill
You've set this chicken your last time
'Cause now I've got the pill.

This old maternity dress I've got
Is goin' in the garbage
The clothes I'm wearin' from now on
Won't take up so much yardage.

Miniskirts, hot pants
And a few little fancy frills
Yeah, I'm makin' up for all those years
Since I've got the pill.

I'm tired of all your crowin'
How you and your hens play
While holdin' a couple in my arms
Another's on the way.

This chicken's done tore up her nest
And I'm ready to make a deal
And ya can't afford to turn it down
'Cause you know I've got the pill.

This incubator is overused
Because you've kept it filled
The feelin' good comes easy now
Since I've got the pill.

It's gettin' dark it's roostin' time
Tonight's too good to be real
Oh, but daddy don't you worry none
'Cause mama's got the pill.

Oh, daddy don't you worry none
'Cause mama's got the pill...

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Givin' all your love to just one man
You'll have ba-ad times and you'll have good times
Doin' things that you don't understa-and

But if you love him, you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
A-and if you love him, hoh be proud of him
'Cause after all he's just a man

Stand by your man
Give him two ar-arms to cling to
And somethin' warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely

Stand by your-our ma-a-an
And show the wor-orld you love him
Keep givin' all the love you ca-a-a-a-a-a-an
Stand by your-our ma-an

Stand by your-our ma-an
And show the wor-or-orld you love him
Keep givin' all the love you ca-a-a-a-a-a-an
Stand by your-our ma-an

Many years have come and gone
Since I wandered from my home
In those Oklahoma hills where I was born
Many a page of life has turned
Many a lesson I have learned
And I feel that in those hills I still belong.

Way down yonder in the Indian nation
Ride my pony on the reservation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
A way down yonder in the Indian nation
A cowboy's life is my occupation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born.

As I sit here today many miles I am away
From a place I rode my pony through the draw
Where the oak and blackjack trees
Kiss the playful prairie breeze
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born.

Way down yonder in the Indian nation
Ride my pony on the reservation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
A way down yonder in the Indian nation
A cowboy's life is my occupation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born.

--- Instrumental ---

As I turn life a page
To the land of a great old sage
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
Where the Blackbony River flows
In the snow white cotton grows
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born.

Way down yonder in the Indian nation
Ride my pony on the reservation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born
A way down yonder in the Indian nation
A cowboy's life is my occupation
In the Oklahoma hills where I was born...

Listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland, o'er the hills and by the shore
Hear the rush of the mighty engine, hear the lonesome hobo's call
He's riding through the jungle on the Wabash Cannnonball

Now the western states are dandies, so the southern people say
From Chicago and St. Louis and Peoria by the way
To the lake of Minnesota, where the rippling waters flow
No chances to be taken on the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland, o'er the hills and by the shore
Hear the rush of the mighty engine, hear the lonesome hobo's call
He's riding through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball

She pulled in to the station one cold December day
As she rolled up to the platform, you could hear all the people say
"Now there's a gal from Birmingham, she's long and she's tall
She came down from Georgia on the Wabash Cannonball"

Listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland, o'er the hills and by the shore
Hear the rush of the mighty engine, hear the lonesome hobo's call
He's riding through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball

Now here's to Daddy Claxton, may his name forever stand
And always be remembered in the courts of all the land
His earthly race is over and as the curtain falls
We'll carry him back to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball
Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland, o'er the hills and by the shore
Hear the rush of the mighty engine, hear the lonesome hobo's call
He's riding through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry

I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
Like me he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry

I saw you last night in my dreams, love
I awoke as the clock was strikin' four
But I didn't think that I'd meet you
And now as you walk through the door

Come sit here with me, little darlin'
And allow me to sing
I love you, sweetheart, I love you
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey

As you stood there before me, I wondered
If I'd ever get you off of my mind
And the tears filled my eyes when you vanished
With your golden curls that hung down behind

Come sit here with me, little darlin'
And allow me to sing
I love you, sweetheart, I love you
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey

Won't you come back to me in my dreams, love?
Some dark night when I'm here all alone
Would you tell me sweetheart that you love me?
Some dark night when I'm here all alone

Come sit here with me, little darlin'
And allow me to sing
I love you, sweetheart, I love you
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey

Came in last night about a half past ten
That woman of mine she wouldn't let me in
Move it on over (move it on over)
Move it on over (move it on over)
Move over little dog cause a big dog's movin in

She changed the lock on my front door
now my key, it don't fit no more
So get it on over (move it on over)
Scoot it on over (move it on over)
Move over skinny dog cause a fat dog's moving in

This dog house here is mighty small
But it's sure better than no house at all
So ease it on over (move it on over)
Drag it on over (move it on over)
Move over old dog cause a new dog's moving in

She told me not to play around
But I done let the deal go down
So pack it on over (move it on over)
Tote it on over (move it on over)
Move over nice dog cause a bad dog's moving in

She warned me once, she warned me twice
But I don't take no one's advice
So scratch it on over (move it on over)
Shake it on over (move it on over)
Move over short dog cause a tall dog's moving in

I'll crawl back to her on my knees
pretty soon i'll be scratching fleas
So slide it on over (move it on over)
Sneak it on over (move it on over)
Move over good dog cause a bad dog's moving in

Remember pup, before you start to whine
That side's yours and this side's mine
So shove it on over (move it on over)
Sweep it on over (move it on over)
Move over cold dog cause a hot dog's moving in

Who did you say it was brother?
Who was it fell by the way?
When whiskey and blood run together
Did you hear anyone pray?

CHORUS
I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother
I didn't hear nobody pray
I heard the crash on the highway
But, I didn't hear nobody pray.

When I heard the crash on the highway
I knew what it was from the start
I went to the scene of destruction
And a picture was stamped on my heart.

There was whiskey and blood all together
Mixed with glass where they lay
Death played her hand in destruction
But I didn't hear nobody pray.

I wish I could change this sad story
That I am now telling you
But there is no way I can change it
For somebody's life is now through.

Their soul has been called by the Master
They died in a crash on the way
And I heard the groans of the dying
But, I didn't hear nobody pray.

CHORUS