[ with Sue York ] We're above suspicion both you and I They say that I'm a good girl and that I'm a good guy We belong to others but the power of love Is just t...

(Love is where you find it when you find no love at home) And there's nothing cold as ashes after the fire is gone The bottle's almost empty the clock just no...

You think you took her from me but I just gave her to you I never wanted her much anyway all I ever wanted to do Was kiss her lips in the early morn hold her ha...

I've tried so hard to keep our home alive but you don't even care that I'm around You tell me that somehow our love has died And you'd rather be set free than b...

All the time yes darling all the time tenderly constantly I'll love you Every day I'll prove it every day in happiness or loneliness I'll love you Other arms ma...

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

When you left I changed the locks on all the doors And I swore I'd never let you in no more But I feel your presence here just like a ghost Each time I lock the...

I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed It seems like everyone I've loved I've lost When I met you I thought my luck had turned But our love's just anot...

Friends ask how I'll get along without you they say it's so sad we're apart (And I have to agree that I don't seem like me I'm having a ball with my heart) Anyt...

So many times you've told me that you love me And just as many times I found that it's not true So if you've had your fun and you still need someone Come on hom...

I go all to pieces at the sight of of you I tried to look the other way when you're around But that takes more strenght than can be found I just get weak as mem...

When the years show in our faces from the thoughtless hand of time And our youth is just a mem'ry to revive (We'll spend many happy hours thumbing through the p...

The man who preached the funeral said it really was a simple way to die He laied to rest one afternoon and never opened up his eyes They hired me and Fred and J...

I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time but that was before I met you I never saw one that I wanted for mine but that was before I met you I thought I was ...

BOP-A-LENA WRITERS MEL TILLIS, WEBB PIERCE RECORDED BY RONNIE SELF Oop-scooby-dooby-lena, go-gal-go Bop-a-lena, bop-a-lena, she's my gal Oh, bop-a-lena, bop-a-...

I'd like to hold my head up and be proud of who I am But they won't let my secret go untold I paid the debt I owed 'em but they're still not satisfied Now I'm a...

Well I had me a girl with the golden curles she vowed to treat me right But here I am and I'm all alone on the Brooklyn Bridge tonight On the Brooklyn Bridge to...

When she left I locked the door and pulled the shades Now I'm living in a six room grave All my reasons for living have died so I'm living buried alive I just e...

(Burning mem'ries burning mem'ries) Tonight I'm burning old love letters photographs and memories of you Hoping somehow I'll feel better and when the smoke is g...

Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square The biggest thing that happens is the county fair I guess that's why it seemes like such a big event What we all ca...

Keep the cold lonely world to my bedroom for a while Sit here beside my and let me see you smile For when I'm alone minutes are eternity so for a few fleeting m...

I called collect on the phone You say youre tired and alone But it sounds like someone else is lying there She said dont call me no more Dont you knock on my do...

Come on and sing girl sing boy sing a happy song Come on and sing girl sing boy this old world may not last long Most everybody's doin' too much fighting and t...

I was lonely I guess the night that we met in a tavern down on old Broadway And there were tears in her eyes and she whispered a sigh Stranger please take me ou...

It's been many years now since mom passed away But there's lots of sweet mem'ries that I have today And when I see autumn and leaves turning brown I feel like m...

Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real You're someone el...

I remember when I was a lad times were hard and times were bad But there's a silver lining behind every cloud Just poor people that's all we were tryin' to make...

There's a girl in a barroom we all know her well Her name it's the story that some may like to tell She may be young and pretty with lips red as wine A girl who...

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh Lord I wanna go home Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home I dreamed abo...

Down down down came the world I went round round round round in a whirl I built every dream around one girl then down down down came the world She must have lo...

Emetions what are you doin' oh don't you know you'll be my ruin You've got me crying crying again when will you let this heartache end Emotions you get me upset...

FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE WRITER ELVIN BISHOP I must have been through about a million girls I'd love 'em then I'd leave 'em alone I didn't care how much ...

Oh the games people now every night and every day now Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean They just wile away the hours in their ivory t...

I know I promised months ago that I divorce my wife And you say you're tired of living in this sin But please be patient and don't leave I'm just too ashamed to...

GOOD DEAL LUCILLE Writers Al Terry, JD Miller, Charles Theriot Copyright 1954 Goodbye Lou cherche vous another man Say l'amour, portoujour” if you can You're h...

Well I've been reeling around Wheeling West Virginia just a little too long Well I gotta be leaving cause one deceiving free wheeling woman done me wrong And it...

Guide me home my Georgia moon Well I left my home in Georgia cought the lights of New York town But my pockets soon were empty now my luck it sure is down I'm l...

I love you so much that I can't leave you even though my mind tells me I should But then you make me think you really want me Then all my thoughts of leaving do...

Heartache number one was when you left me I never knew that I could hurt this way And heartache number two was when you came back again You came back and never ...

Everybody let's go Hearts of stone will never never break for the love you give they just won't take You can ask them please please please please break And all ...

If an angel wears a housewife's dress And fills a home with happiness One wakes me gently every morning And serves my coffee with a kiss My life is heaven ever...

I'd like to make everyday with you a holiday for love Every hour of the day you're all I'm a thinkin' of All week along when you're gone I sit around so blue I ...

[ with Sue York ] We're well known in every honky tonk in town Not a night goes by that we don't make the rounds People wonder why we choose to live this way Wh...

Well if you're sad and lonely and got no place to go Call me up sweet mama and bring along some dough And we'll go honky tonkin' honky tonkin' we'll go honky to...

HOW COME YOUR DOG DON'T BITE NOBODY BUT ME WITH WEBB PIERCE Writer Webb Pierce Well you tell me that you love me you make me feel so good But I don't feel that...

Well I ain't never I ain't never Seen nobody like you no no no never have I ever seen nobody like you You call me up and say to meet me at nine I have to hurry ...

Everybody says you let me down I should be ashamed to take you round Makes no difference what you used to do darling I could never be ashamed of you Maybe you w...

Hey baby, let me see your brand new saddle Let's that pretty thing up on my horse Let's get it on real tight now 'Cause we don't want you falling off Well, I g...

While walking one day in the country I saw a gathering crowd And as my footsteps threw me closer I smell a sweet fragrance of flowers That looked like a family ...

Well I was raised on corn bread and gravy I slept in a cardboard box till I was nearly three I bathed myself in muddy river runnin' by our shack By the time tha...

They're not teardrops just sincere drops they're I love you drops cause I love you They were on my pillow when I woke up this morning They were on the letter I ...

I thought about walkin' thought about talkin' thought about singin' singin' the blues Thought about tryin' once I even thought of dyin' But baby most of all I t...

The first strange town I was ever in the county was hanging a man Nobody cared if he lived or died and I just didn't understand So I washed my face in the morni...

Standin' on the corner of a busy street I'm lookin' for your face in every crowd I see Checking every honky tonk in this town Tryin' to find the places that you...

Now if I could only start over and have a new life to begin I wouldn't live like a rover and drift like a leaf in the wind Cause I'm dreaming tonight of old swe...

If I lost your love oh how I'd cry I'd wish I could die if I lost your love You are to me a sweet dream come true don't know what I'd do if I lost your love I'm...

Just one more dance just one more chance so I can talk to you Don't live too fast forget the past and I will try to prove I would do anything you want me to Don...

If she seems cold and bitter I beg of you Just stop and consider all she's gone through Don't be quick to condemn her for things she might say Just remember lif...

Woke up this morning, found you were gone; Sitt'n here wondering where you are Looked in the closet and under the stove; Checked the garage and trunk of the car...

If mem'ries were gathered like flowers each day I would pick a bouquet To last through these long lonely hours but mem'ries aren't gathered that way For mem'rie...

I'm prayin' for rain in California so the grapes can grow and they can make more wine And I'm a sittin' in a honky in Chicago with a broken heart and a woman on...

Now life is filled with ups and downs and we both had our share And everytime I slip and fall you're still there to care (Together we can stand against the worl...

Do you remember me lonely girl in your guilty memory My love you traded for the night world where all your dreams met with tragedy Now do you remember how I lov...

Don't know what I'm gonna do since my baby said we're through I've really got a case of blue oh I walk the Lonely Street Ever since she said goodbye all I do i...

My name's in the paper where I took the boy scouts to hike My hands're all dirty from working on my little boy's bike The preacher came by and I talked for a mi...

Oh Mary don't you weep for me oh Mary just await for me The war's gonna soon be over oh Mary don't you weep Jimmy sent a letter to his bride back home for thre...

Everywhere there's a memory mem'ries made this house The chairs and the table standing in the corner it seems were always filled With good food and happy people...

I hope the friend you've thrown yourself with gets drunk and loses his jo And that the road you're walking on gets cold rocky and hard I couldn't make you love ...

Long train rumbles low in the distance hear it blow Don't engineers know I miss you? And they're reminding me how lonely nights can be When it's midnight, me an...

Missing you can't help but wish that you were in my arms tonight making love to me Kissing you that's all I want to do it never seems just right now that we are...

MR DROPOUT (Mel Tillis) « © '66 Cedarwood Publishing » Well I dropout the school when I was young I thought living was just all fun Then I met trouble in every...

He was a man and a friend always he stuck with me in the hard old days He never cared if I had no dough we rambled round in the rain and snow And here's to you ...

You are my special angel sent from up above The Lord smiled down on me and sent an angel to love You are my special angel right from paradise I know that you're...

She's a rose where roses never grow Behind the swinging doors she pours the wine that flows She keeps on pretending that she's having fun But it's a blue, blue ...

Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis And when you arrive at the station I'll be right there to meet you I'll be right there to gree...

Honey bee loves the honey chickadee loves the sky Everybody loves somebody but no love have I no love have I Standing on the corner lovers pass me by How my hea...

Normally Norma's kissing me just about this time every morning With the wink in her eye she whispers goodbye Then she tells me somethin' sweet and knocks me off...

I always called her old faithful she was always there when I came home And I never thought the day would come she'd leave me But for me those kind of thinking d...

The old gang's gone I'm the only one that's left And I guess that it's about time I moved on out myself Cause there ain't no use in hanging round a town that's...

(Lord they're on their way on their way) Saw a man an angry man killed his brother with his own hands Brother laid on the ground sinner man you'd better kneel ...

See that house across the street from this barroom bottle The people who live in it I love so So I come here every night and I pray that I'll see them Think I'l...

I wonder what the power is that you hold over me I never get to love you long just your memory And I make a vow each time you leave that this will draw the line...

You were mine for just a while now you're puttin' on the style And you've never once looked back at your home across the track You're the gossip of the town but...

You tell me pretendin' that it's only a game Say that I never loved you or that you have my name But no matter what happens I can't lie to my heart I die just a...

All your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and soul dear And I know my life will never be the same All my pleas and prayers have been in vain f...

You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating goin' out somewhere The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is goi...

Well, once I was a slave at the sawmill Talk about a poor boy, talk about a poor boy Never saw a dollar bill Well, my work was so hard at the sawmill Think abo...

Pour me hard liquor over soft music at a table with only one chair From the first lonely song till the last drop is gone she'll be hanging round somewhere She ...

Grab you stuff and let's go; It's Saturday night, Time to bowl! Put the pins in a row; I'll bowl a strike, Before I get old! Two am down at the alley, Three bee...

I've been a lot of places and I've seen a lot of faces I've crossed a lot of bridges and I've even branded through But when I look behind me the only thing that...

Well I was born in a tumbled down shack one quarter of a mile from a railroad track Mama was a drifter daddy was a bum and they didn't want a little hobo son Bu...

They say my tears come from the bottle that stands beside me all the time But I wonder if they know the sorrow that always overtakes the wine I drink to find fo...

Sometimes my soul gets weary and my mind begins to wonder And like that old train The Hummingbird” it goes to Alabam They say home is where the heart is and min...

SOUTHERN RAINS Writer Roger Murrah Sometimes my soul gets weary and my mind begins to wonder And like that old train The Hummingbird” it goes to Alabam They sa...

STAND BESIDE ME BEHIND ME WITH SHERRY BRYCE (Paul Craft) « © '71 Acuff-Rose Music » Stand beside me behind me so loneliness can't find me I need your love to m...

Well the Japany's moon is bright tonight and Tokio is full of life Busy people everywhere but busy people just don't care I wanna go stateside oh Lord I wanna g...

Songwriters: Duncan, Tommy; Willis, Bo Well, you've all seen my little blue-eyed Sally She lives a-way down on Shinbone Alley The number on the gate and the nu...

Stomp, stomp them grapes and make that wine Put it in a bottle, boys, and ship it on down the line Well, I got up this morning and made it downtown Started mig...

Infant turtles racing to the sea seagulls screeching crying hungr'ly Twisting kicking jerking in their craws oh wonder why God made these kind of laws Preachers...

Standing alone at an old country crossroad Wondering which way will lead me to home Ever so weary from chasing a dream Thinking of Mary sweet Mary and the miles...