Every time I hear the midnight trains rollin' out to the open plains A sense of freedom fills my veins I get the fever Every time I sparrow flies up into the en...

(I love you for a hundred thousand reasons But most of all I love you cause you're you) Why do I love you I love you not only for what you are But for what I ...

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

Last night was the worst night of my life no doubt Cause while I stayed at home someone else took you out I cried cause I love you with all of my might And I mi...

The nights were dark and long I spent a million all alone But I never once stopped loving you My world was cold and still my dreams lay unfulfilled But I never ...

My friend I said a prayer for you today and I know God must've heard I felt the answer in my heart although He spoke no word I didn't ask for wealth or fame I k...

I've been walked on looked through laughed at lied to I've been stripped of all my feelin's and what little pride I've got But I still believe in love believe i...

The leaves have changed from green to golden at least one time and maybe two All I know is I feel a hundred years older and I still feel the same about you Time...

[ Mary Lou Turner ] At my door the leaves are falling the cold wild wind will come Sweet hearts world bide together but I still miss someone I go out on a party...

(Every morning when I wake up) I thank God for you (Every night I close my eyes) and I thank God for you I shudder to think what might have happened to me if I...

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds because you're mine I walk the line ...

Somewhere a telephone is ringing right now Someone's old sweetheart is on the line She's calling to patch up an old love affair oh I wish it was mine Somebody's...

[ Bill ] We were tunin' up to play a gig just another one night stand I looked over my guitar and there stood an old man His cowboy clothes were frayed and worn...

(Orville Couch - Bobbie Jean Carroll) Bill Anderson & Roy Acuff (Bill) We were tunin' up to play a gig Just another one night stand I looked over my guitar And ...

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...

(Bill Anderson) You say you've found another, another you love better You say you're gonna leave me, pack up and go You don't wanna hurt me but you've just gott...

You say you've found another another you love better You say you're gonna leave me pack up and go You don't wanna hurt me but you've just gotta have him And how...

In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight Anyplace is all right long as I'm with you In a faraway land by the trophic sea sand if your hand's in my han...

Hi friends this is Bill Anderson Decca Records and I are presenting to you here an album called From This Pen To most of you this is an album of twelve songs Bu...

Your love eased into my heart like a mornin' sunrise At the end of a cold and lonely rainy night I was nearly to the end of my road, out of mind and out of hope...

You slipped in and really caught me by surprice When you told me you were leaving me today You say you've found another you love better Well it was time for me ...

When I'm like a leaf in the wind you're an oak tree beside me Lifting your branches to make sure I don't blow away And when I'm like a rolling stone you're the ...

[ Bill ] I am weak but Thou art strong Jesus keep me from all wrong I'll be satisfied as long as I walk let me walk close to Thee Just a closer walk with Thee g...

Just as I am without one plea but that Thy blood was shed for me And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee oh lamb of God I come I come Just as I am and waiting not ...

You gave me just enough of you to make me want it all You held me in your arms just tight enough to make me tremble And the sexy way you looked at me drove me...

Just for you just for you that's why I say the things I say and I do the things I do No one else can make my arms feel like they're wrapped around the world Yes...

The boss needs me to come to work In the morning, he told me so My landlord needs me to pay My rent or out I go The parakeet needs me To teach him a song The p...

When we get home babe gonna light your fire All day I been thinkin' about you baby you're my desire Gonna wrap my arms around you and hold you close to me Oh ba...

Mhm, mhm, the greatest feeling in all of the world Is simply knowing you're mine Wherever I go and whatever I do Always knowing you're mine And when I close my...

In your eyes I can see you really don't believe it's you I'm holdin' in my arms Cause I've known you all your life You've never been the kind of woman to do wro...

A lesson too late for a learning made of sand made of sand In the wink of an eye my soul was turning in your hand in your hand Are you going away with no words ...

Let me be a little kinder let me be a little blinder To the faults of those about me let me praise a little more Let me be when I am weary just a little bit mor...

Let me be the one to walk with you when you want somebody to talk with you Anything that makes you happy I want to do darling let me be the one Let me be the on...

[ Both ] Let me take you away let me take you away love there's still time let me take you away [ Bill ] Did he tell you he love you this morning before he left...

Let me whisper darling one more time let the soft curves of your body cling to mine Let me feel you through and through I can't get enough of you Let me whisper...

Hi honey I'm workin' late again tonight yeah I just called so you'd know Liars one believers zero Hello baby can I buy you a drink am I married haha heavens no ...

There's a deep silent river flowin' just beyond and its waters are deep and wide It's as dark as the night but my eyes see a light just down by the river side T...

There you were standing there smiling as you made your plans You were going to leave me and go with him You said you loved him so and your love would always be ...

And I wake up in the mornin' with my hair down in my eyes and she says hi And I stumble to the breakfast table while the kids're goin' off to school goodbye And...

Lonely is everything you said it would be A cup of coffee by myself starts off my day With eyes so red from crying I can't see The minutes seem like hours since...

Once upon a time you and I were so in love The whole wide world was gay and happy then I don't know how or why our love began to die till it vanished like a str...

Well I make it alright (well I make it alright) From Monday morning till Friday night but oh those lonely weekends Since you left me (since you left me) I'm as ...

They say I sing my songs with lots of blue eyed soul What they mean is Lord I sing it sad But feeling like I feel I can't sing no other way She left me Lord and...

Lost in long and warm ago I just caressed a mem'ry and took it from my mind it fell around me like a gentle glow A smile of sadness curved my lips my thoughts r...

Love you look how I love you look how I love you see it shining in my eyes Little drops of love falling from my eyes Tell an old familiar story you're telling m...

I was looking back to see if you were looking back to see If I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me You were cute as you could be standing loo...

I'd have spent a lot more time out in the pouring rain without an umbrella covering my head And I'd have stood up to that bully when he pushed and shoved And ca...

My mama and daddy were celebrating their anniversary In all their years together I'd never seen them disagree I said mama what's your secret daddy tell me the t...

(And now here's Bill Anderson) Love is a sometimes thing your love is a sometimes thing It comes and goes like winter and spring yes your love is a sometimes t...

He stopped at the bar on his way to the bandstand To strenghten his courage and weaken his pride On an old paper napkin he wrote me this message When the snow's...

Cause your love takes good care of me yes your love takes good care of me And when the rain falls and the wind blows and the storm is on the sea I'll be safe yo...

I loved you more in just a few hours than most people love in all of their years And now though you're gone I still have you with me The sweetest reflections fi...

Make mine night time honky tonk women and bright signs I gotta play At the end of the day Give me the lights of the city and the feel of a woman against me and ...

Mama never got to rock us mama never got to love us But papa rocked and loved us night and day Mama never got to sing to us mama never got to teach us But papa ...

(God put a song in the heart of an angel and softly she sang it to me) I get to thinking lots of times about back when I was a lad Of the old homeplace where I ...

I've got a confession to make when I first decided to bring you here tonight I was scared to death I started once to call it off Run back to my little corner of...

Like a bird that's lost its mate in flight I'm alone and oh so blue tonight Like a piece of driftwood on the sea may you never be alone like me I believed the l...

(Me) that's all I ever thought about (Me) that's all I ever cared about (Me) I turned my back on the love that I now cry for (Me) I pushed aside what some men d...

Busted flat in Baton Rouge headin' for the trains feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained took us all the way to New ...

High a top a mountain lookin' down to Panga Canyon I came to see the blue pacific in the night The stars are like a miollion dancin' diamods on the water And my...

(Melinda Melinda) oh how I miss Melinda While a walking down a street in Denver I passed by a little dress shop A sign on the door read Melinda's and I asked my...

(You're my memory No 1) I've got lots of golden memories of a million things I've said and done But when I seperate them darling you're my memory No 1 I've call...

Your pillow don't get wet when I go to bed and weep Your eyes don't turn red when I don't get my sleep Your world don't fall apart when my phone don't ring You ...

The war began and Henry left his farm Left his darling Molly with a baby in her arms Now the war was over and their life could begin Molly saw her darling stand...

More and more I'm forgetting the past more and more I'm living at last Day by day I'm losin' my blues more and more I'm forgetting bout you I wish you knew how...

There's nothin' I like any better than turnin' the lights down low Turnin' the covers back and lettin' all of our feelin' show My favorite room is the bedroom m...

(They call it that ole mountain dew and them that refuse it are few) I'll hush up my mug if you'll just fill up my jug with that good ole mountain dew There's...

This is a song about a girl from The bayou down in Louisiana country The story simply says She left home at sixteen Said she was gonna be a movie queen Said he...

My Christmas list grows shorter every year things just aren't the way they were before My Christmas list grows shorter every year it's almost not like Christmas...

You followed me to Texas you followed me to Utah We didn't find it there so we moved on You followed me to Alabam things look good in Birmingham We didn't find ...

???© '69 Stallion Music You don't understand the pattern of my life because my life has got no pattern You don't see and you can't feel the wind That's blowing...

You don't understand the pattern of my life because my life has got no pattern You don't see and you can't feel the wind That's blowing at my back and saying mo...

[ Jan ] Nearer my God to Thee nearer to Thee in though it be a cross that raises me [ Bill ] Still all my songs shall be nearer my God to Thee [ Both ] Nearer m...

My mama always told me better than to play with a loaded gun If I'd've just listened to her she'd've never had a prisoner for a son The picture's still in front...

What is my reason for going on living when I'm not really living at all I come home in the evening there's no laughter there to fill the air A cool lonely room ...

The old man got to feelin' bad In the middle of the night His grandson got up out of bed And lit the coal oil light He sat there and held his hand Till his gra...

I don't wanna see no lips of all the lips you've ever kissed I just wanna be your No 1 I don't need no one to warm me I don't care who came before me I just wan...

Everybody's going out and having fun I'm just a fool for staying home and having none I can't get over how she set set me free oh lonesome me A bad mistake I'm ...

Sometimes in fond mem'ry my thoughts go back to the old country church That I attened as a boy You know it's kinda funny how we cling to old bygone days and byg...

It feels like the old me and you again it feels like the old me and you The clouds're gone and the sun's shining through And it feels like the old me and you T...

[ Jan ] On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suffering and shame And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a world of lost ...

He stopped at Fifth on Broad near where the Opry used to be For one last tiny thought of singing there in '53 He walked into a pawnshop with a ring of gold and ...

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 pains away until now I'm down to hurt...

One mile over and two miles back my heart's been crushed like a paper sack She loves another it's a natural fact one mile over and two miles back She called me...

You're one more sexy lady a true piece of heaven's art You're one more sexy lady and I love you with all my heart Sexy lady with all my heart I like the sexy w...

Jesus Jesus Jesus sweetest name I know He was born in an obscure village The son of a simple peasant woman He grew up in another small town And worked with his ...

Well I woke up one too many mornings to find that you had not yet made it home And I sat up too many midnights crying till now the time for tears has come and g...

When I started out to write this song You and I were walkin' down the highway holdin' hands I was gonna write about how much a woman's love can help a man But s...

Papa was a simple man papa loved his farming land Guess I didn't understand please forgive me papa You can't paint a picture of a man like papa with something a...

I've tried to forget you by running and hiding Burning down bridges and closing off doors I guess it just took me a long time deciding part of my heart will alw...

[ Bill ] Well I'm tired and so weary but I must go along Till the Lord comes and calls me calls me away oh yes Where the morning's so bright and the lamb is the...

On the poor side of Fort Worth in a rundown motel A rodeo cowboy held a young Texas belle He scooped up some peanuts right out of the can And he whispered as he...

She's still the angel that I knew before the only difference now is she's mine In an apron or a nightgown or the wedding dress she wore She's a perfect angel al...

Po' Folks © '61 Champion Music There's a whole lotta people lookin' down their noses at me Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family There was ten of us livin' ...

You know I don't think much about her anymore seldom if ever does she cross my mind Yesterday's gone Lord it's better forgotten Like the poison red berries to d...

[ Mary Lou Turner ] I knew this morning as soon as the phone rang that crazy woman had hurt you again That's why I told you to come on over The coffee is warm s...

[ Bill ] Precious mem'ries unseen angels sent from somewhere to my soul How they linger ever near me as the sacred past unfolds Precious mem'ries how they linge...

I know what you do and it drives me insane no matter what I do you never will change You just keep denying this thing that you do But someday someway I'll have ...

Think of your fellow man lend him a helping hand put a little love in your heart You see it's gettin' late oh please don't hesitate put a little love in your he...

We couldn't call it love cause it really wasn't love anymore Yet we couldn't call it hate cause there's no way to hate Someone you've loved so much before We co...