FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS (I LOVE YOU) WRITERS WILLIAM BEST, DEEK WATSON I love you for sentimental reasons I hope you do believe me I'll give you my heart I love...

If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game I'd be a legend in my time If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets I'd be a legend in my time But they d...

Dear John, Oh, how I hate to write Dear John, I must let you know tonight That my love for you has died away like grass upon the lawn And tonight I wed another,...

A star fell from heaven, right into my arms The brightest star I know I've ever seen Then I found out that it was Only you with all your charms Who came into my...

AFRAID WRITER FRED ROSE Afraid to tell you how much I care Afraid I'll need you and you won't be there I'd love to take you in to my heart But something tells m...

Ain't done one single thing this morning except for crying all night long Ain't had no lovin' since you've been gone And I ain't a gonna get no lovin' till you ...

WRITERS MILTON AGER, JACK YELLEN Oh ain't she sweet, Well see her walking down that street Yes I ask you very confidentially: Ain't she sweet? Oh ain't she nice...

ALABAMA JUBILEE WRITERS JACK YELLEN, GEORGE L CO Chorus: You ought to see deacon Jones When he rattles the bones, Old parson Brown foolin' 'roun like a clown, A...

I wonder if she thinks of me or ever needs someone Who cares for her the way I did not long ago I wonder if she's found someone to stay close by her side To tel...

From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers I'm all through ever trusting anyone The only thing I can count on now is my fingers I was a fool believing yo...

I'll try anything that's new if something old won't do If I can make you happy when you're feeling blue Cause I love you yes I love you all of the time I love e...

Alone and forsaken by fate and by man Oh Lord if you hear me please hold to my hand please understand We met in the springtime when blossoms unfold The pastures...

Always darling in all ways I belong to you and just to you alone Always for all of my days I will love you till the breath in my body is gone So don't ever doub...

AMONG MY SOUVENIRS WRITERS HORATIO NICHOLS, EDGAR LESLIE There's nothing left for me of days that used to be There's just a memory among my souvenirs Some lette...

ANGEL BAND TRADITIONAL My latest sun is sinking fast, my race is nearly run My strongest trials now are past, my triumph has begun Oh, come Angel Band come and ...

I love you but I must live without you I said And ever since I let you go my world has been dead I don't know what I had in mind but I know it was wrong So anyt...

Once those two lips were true lips they meant every word they said But a woman has the right to change her mind and you did Twas on a June night a moonlight whe...

BABY (Ray Griff) « © '65 Helene Blue Musique, ASCAP » Baby sweet sweet baby my world's so cold and empty since you've gone Baby sweet sweet baby without you I d...

Baby hear me callin' baby Come over here and love me hold your lovin' body close to mine Crazy you're drivin' me crazy Maybe you don't mean to but you never kno...

BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF SOMEWHERE WRITERS JESSIE B POUNDS, JON S FEARIS Somewhere the sun is shining somewhere the songbirds dwell Hush then your sad repining God liv...

Today my life is so much brighter and I know how love will always shine Each day my heart is so much lighter and it's all because you are mine You give me love ...

Big wind's a comin' listen to the hummin' hurry kids be quick don't stall Big wind's a comin' listen to the hummin' if we don't hurry it'll ge us all From dayl...

(Black sheep black sheep) This world holds many misteries that I don't understand One is why the wanderlust is born in the heart of a man I kissed young lips t...

In the Blue Canadian Rockies spring is sighing through the trees And the golden pupies are blooming around the banks of Lake Luise Across the sea they call me I...

In the twilight glow I see her Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain As we kissed good-bye and parted, I knew we'd never meet again Love is like a dying ember Where onl...

BLUE SKIES WRITER IRVING BERLIN Blue skies, smilin' at me Nothin' but blues skies do I see Bluebirds singin' a song Nothin' but bluebirds all day long All the ...

WRITERS HANK MILLS, WALTER HAYNESS When you wake up in the mornin' and you're sick your head to toe No need to get a doctor cause the doc he won't know How to t...

WRITERS JENNY LOU CARSON, RED FOLEY Blues in my heart oh how it aches nobody knows the sorrow it takes I should have known right from the start you'd leave me ...

WRITERS JENNY LOU CARSON, RED FOLEY Blues in my heart oh how it aches nobody knows the sorrow it takes I should have known right from the start you'd leave me ...

BORN TO LOSE WRITER FRANKIE BROWN aka TED DAFFAN Born to lose I've lived my life in vain every dream has only brought me pain All my life I've always been so b...

WRITERS HARRY WARREN, AL DUBIN I walk along the street of sorrow The boulevard of broken dreams Where gigolo and gigolette Can take a kiss without regret So th...

All my life I've traveled o'er the country I've even flown and sailed across the sea Name of famous bridge ah I betcha that I've crossed And all the women that ...

BUT WHERE ARE YOU WRITER IRVING BERLIN All alone I am yearning to be with you again For a spark is still burning, it will ever remain But I'm yearning in vain T...

CHILLS WRITERS GERRY GOFFIN, JACK KELLER (chilly, chilly, wah-wah-wah-wah) (chilly, chilly, wah-wah-wah-wah) Chills, runnin' up and down my spine Well I get the...

CHINA DOLL (Gerald Cannan - Jane Cannan) « © '70 Tune Towne Tunes, BMI » I'm tired of cryin' and all your lyin' that's why I'm buyin' a China Doll Her lips are ...

We used to be happy at Christmas our love seemed to grow more and more Now there's not a Christmas tree nothing in this house but me And Christmas don't seem li...

I dreamed I spent my Christmas with my family I heard the sleigh bells ringing from afar I dreamed I helped my sisters decorate the tree And my brother held me ...

(Christmas is holy not a holiday) There's a word we often mention all along life's weary way It's the day that's made to praise the one unseen It's been change...

WRITER BILL ANDERSON The bright array of city lights as far as I can see The great white way shines through the night for lonely guys like me The cabarets and ...

I got back in town a day before I'd planned to I smiled and said I'll sure surprise my wife I don't think I'll phone I'll just head on home For I didn't know th...

(There'll be lots of Sunday singing there'll be lots of happy suppers) If you can love a common country man The only silk you'll touch will be the ribbons in yo...

CONVOY WRITERS CHIP DAVIS, CW McCALL, BILL FRIES Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fe...

Oh it's crying time again you're gonna leave me I can see that faraway look in your eyes I can tell by the way you hold me darling it won't be long before it's ...

DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL Writers Bobby Burke, Horace Gerlach You're the end of the of the rainbow my pot of gold You're daddy's little girl to hand and hold A precio...

Oh Danny Boy the pipes the pipes are calling From glen to glen and down the mountain side The summer's gone and all the roses falling it's you it's you must go ...

DEEP WATER WRITER FRED ROSE I'm drifting into deep water I'm startin' to care for you You're getting me in deep water be careful what you do You wanna romance ...

DETOUR WRITER PAUL WESTMORELAND Headed down life's crooked road lot of things I never knowed And because of me not knowin' I now pine Trouble got in the trail ...

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City And I dreamed about the cottonfields and home I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother I dreamed ab...

Don't count the diamonds in her wedding band until she wears it on her hand I once believed in all she told me my faithful bride she was to be But then a thief ...

(Please don't hurt me anymore) I've walked the streets of loneliness a long long time I know I've prayed to die a million times because you hurt me so I didn't ...

Don't it make you wanna go home now don't it make you wanna go home All of God's children get weary when they roam Don't it make you wanna go home don't it make...

Did you ever lie and listen to the rain fall did you ever own a homemade apple pie Did you ever watch a child while he was praying Friend don't let the good lif...

Friends there's somethin' been hauntin' me and I just got to tell you bout it I saw an accident one day that would chill the heart of any man And teach them not...

EACH TIME YOU LEAVE WRITER SCOTT WISEMAN Each time you leave I die a little say I'm foolish if you will But no matter how I try each time you say goodbye My fo...

Easy lovin', so sexy lookin', I know from the feeling, That it comes from the heart Easy lovin', Everyday's Thanksgiving, To count all my blessings, I wouldn't ...

ELI, THE CAMEL Now, there's an old brown camel on a cigarette pack He's a-waiting for his master but he ain't come back Been standin' there for years in the sa...

EVEN IF IT'S TRUE WRITER DALLAS FRAZIER I refuse to hear the things they say about you I won't let my eyes behold the things you do I don't want to see or hear ...

Every step of the way every minute of the day devotedly I'll always be beside you The seasons change but not my heart time will never see us part I'll always ca...

It's hard for me to smile I feel like crying yet I always manage to grin Friends won't know the pain that I feel or know the misery I'm in Everyone thinks I'm h...

As I look at the letter that you wrote to me it's you that I am thinking of As I read the lines that to me were so dear I remember our faded love I miss you dar...

A star fell from Heaven Right into my arms The brightest star I know I've ever seen Then I found out that it was only you With all your charms Who came into my...

I can see us sittin' round the table when from the family Bible dad would read I can hear my mother softly singing rock of ages rock of ages cleft for me There...

Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder why it should be thus all the day long While there are others living about us never molested though in the wrong Fart...

While we sit at our table my family heads bowed low My thoughts return to childhood to the finest guy I know He doesn't speak good English he's just a simple ma...

Chorus) Flat River, MO, Flat River, MO It's been a many a day since I watched her waters flow If I ain't a got the money to pay I'm gonna walk every step of the...

Flat River Mow Flat River Mow it's been a many a day since I washed her waters flow If I ain't got the money to pay I'm gonna walk every step of the way Cause I...

(Flowers speak louder than words) Flowers speak louder than words they say whether the red white or blue Flowers speak louder than words they say that's why I s...

I hear the train a comin' it's comin' round the bend I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on And...

Don't look so sad I know it's over But life goes on and this old world will keep on turning Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together There's no nee...

Forever yours I'll always be please say that you'll give your sweet love to me Forever yours my love will be I will take care of you say you love me I started ...

FROM A JACK TO A KING WRITER NED MILLER From a jack to a king from loneliness to a wedding ring I played an Ace and I won a Queen and walked away with your hea...

My friends they told me you change like the weather From one love to another you would go But when I first met you your love was like the summer Love I never dr...

Get out of my life if you don't love me get out of my life and leave me alone Get out of my life if you don't want me no need to pretend that feeling is gone Ge...

GIDDY UP GO (Red Sovine - Tommy Hill) « © '65 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI » Cause I told 'em about that little boy of mine And how his first word abo...

GIVE ME THE ROSES WHILE I LIVE WRITER RH CORNELIUS Wonderful things of folks are said When they have passed away Roses adorn the narrow bed Over the sleeping cl...

GODS WERE ANGRY WITH ME (Watt Watkins - Ruth Wilkinson) « © '56 Century Songs, BMI » The Gods were angry with me for loving you The Gods were angry with me beca...

Since you've gone the moon the sun the stars in the sky know the reason why I cry Love divine once was mine now you've gone Since you've gone my heart my lips m...

GREAT SPECKLED BIRD (Roy Carter - Guy Smith) « © '36 Songs Of Universal, BMI » What a beautiful thought I am thinking concerning the great speckled bird And to ...

(It's so good to touch the green green grass of home) The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and papa And...

HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME (Fred Rose - Ed G Nelson - Steve Nelson) « © '56 Milene Music, ASCAP » Don't your conscience ever bother you everytime you hear my name ...

I just don't like this kind of livin' when nobody's lonesome for me I'm headin' down the long lost highway may you never be alone like me Your cold cold crazy c...

If when you give the best of your service telling the world that the Saviour has come Be not dismayed when man don't believe you he'll understand and say well d...

I got a sky full of sunshine a pocket full of roses a hand full of I love yous I ain't got no rooms for no sad song singin' I got a heart full of love for you (...

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 that you still love me And all my thoughts of leaving...

I've searched for words of sweet description too best described The thrill it gives me just to have you by my side But I can't find one single word that properl...

HELLO CENTRAL, GIVE ME HEAVEN WRITER AP CARTER Hello central give me heaven For I know my mother's there And you'll find her with the angels Over on the golden ...

Hello darlin' sure 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 t...

HELLO I'M A TRUCK (Bob Stanton) « © '71 Central Songs, BMI » Hello I'm a truck You've heard songs about truck drivers many times their stories told How they pul...

HOME IN SAN ANTONE (Floyd Jenkins aka Fred Rose) « © '59 Milene Music, ASCAP » Haven't got a worry haven't got a care I haven't got a thing to call my own Thoug...

Oh I'm so homesick all I do is roam the street Can't sleep at night and when I eat a bite I can't swaller what I eat I'm so homesick I'm going crazy and I don't...

When I lost my baby I almost lost my mind When I lost my baby I almost lost my mind My head is in a spin since she left me behind I went to see a gypsy and to h...

(I believe I believe) I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows I believe that somewhere in the darkest night a candle glows I believe for ever...

Today I passed you on the street and my heart fell at your feet I can't help it if I'm still in love with you Somebody else walked by your side and he looked so...

I Can't Stop Loving You by* Ray Charles (I can´t stop loving you) I´ve made up my mind To live in memory of the lonesome times (I can´t stop wanting you) It´s u...

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...

I COULD SING ALL NIGHT LONG (Tommy Collins - Ferlin Husky) « © '66 Husky Music, BMI » I could sing sing sing all night I could sing sing sing all night I could ...

I don't care if I'm not the first love you've known just so I'll be the last No I don't care if I'm not the first one you'd kissed darling I'll never ask Yester...

I DREAMED OF AN OLD LOVE AFFAIR (Jimmie Davis - Bonnie Dodd - Charles Mitchell) « © '56 Peer International, BMI » Just like old times you were here last night A...

(There's anything shared at our house tonight since God called my daddy away) Tonight my heart is heavy there's not a tear left in my eyes You see my dad just p...

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 prete...