Our little boy is four years old And he's quite a little man So we spell out the words We don't want him to understand Like t-o-y, or maybe s-u-r-p-r-i-s-e But ...

Our little boy is four years old and he's quite a little man So we spell out the words we don't want him to understand Like T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E But t...

(Dolly Parton) Daddy I feel that I must talk to you Are you sure this is what you want to do? Now it's not for us kids that I beg you to stay Please don't just...

(Dolly Parton/Dorothy Jo Hope) In this mental institution, lookin' out through these iron bars How could he put me in here, how could he go that far Yes I need...

(Dolly Parton) Daddy was an old time preacher man He preacher the word of God throughout the land He preached so plain a child could understand Yes, Daddy was ...

DADDY WAS AN OLD TIME PREACHER MAN (Dolly Parton - Dorothy Jo Hope) Daddy was an old time preacher man He preached the word of God throughout the land He praea...

As I look around the little house we were so happy in I think of all the happy times we'll never see again Then I break down and start to cry, the children ask ...

Folks say my daddy wasn't much of a man For disobeying the laws of the land Folks say that my daddy wasn't fit to kill Oh and I know it was true what the people...

My dear hard workin' daddy works his life away for us That's the way that daddy shows to us his love And Daddy's two hard working hands They're callous and they...

(Dolly Parton) Oh, you're out there tonight with another And my pain is so dreadfully sharp I picture you with her and shudder, It's like a dagger through the ...

(Merle Travis) Come and listen you fellows So young and do fine And seek not your fortune In the dark, dreary mines It will form as a habit Seep in your soul ...

At the dark end of the street that's where we always meet Hiding in shadows where we don't belong living in darkness to hide our wrong You and me at the dark en...

(Woddy Guthrie/Martin Hoffman) The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps You're flying them back to the me...

The crops are all in and the peaches are rottin' The oranges are piled and their Creosote dumps You're flying them back to the Mexican border To pay all their m...

(Danny Dill/Mel Tillis) You know last night I went to sleep in Detroit city And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home I dreamed about my mother, dear ol...

(Dolly Parton) It's a dirty job But somebody's got to do it Better get to it Somebody's gotta do it Whatever it takes, whatever it takes Any work at all Is bet...

(B Braddock & Curly Putnam) Our Little boy is four years old And he's quite a little man So we spell out the words We don't want him to understand Like T-O-Y, ...

Oh, sometimes I go walking through fields where we walked Long ago in the sweet used to be And the flowers still grow, but they don?t smell as sweet As they did...

Where you live you say the view is so beautiful And the astroturf that's on your lawn stays green the whole year around And the buildings are so tall they almos...

WRITTEN BY DOLLY PARTON YOU LEFTED YOU DIDN'T SAY GOODBYE YOU NEVER GIVE ME A REASON MY TEARS ARE DRIED NOW IT'S BEEN AWHILE NOW THERE YOU STAND YOU'RE BACK AG...

Nobody believes that I really care for you They don't think my heart is true I don't think you agree You know I'm a lifetime gaurantee So if they ask you what y...

Am I to face these lonely halls alone And when you leave, who's gonna walk me home Cause when you walk out the door I won't see you no more And you're the one I...

Our love affair is bitter sweet Insecure and incomplete And I've often wondered why your leaving's been so long delayed It's all become so complicated Maybe you...

I'm tempted my darlin' to steal you away Don't let me cross over, stay out of my way 'Cause you know that I love you and I'm not the stealin' kind But I'm faced...

I'm tempted, my darlin' to steal you away Don't let me cross over, stay out of my way 'Cause you know that I love you and I'm not the stealin' kind But I'm face...

(Dolly Parton) I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide the secret I've tried concealing When he left he promised me he'd be back by the time it was revealin...

(Dolly Parton) Down on Music Row Down on music Row If you want to be a star That's where you've got to go I could feel a change a comin' I left my hometown a ...

When you're alone and life is making you lonely You can always go downtown When you got worries, all the noise and the hurry Seems to help, I know, downtown Ju...

(Dolly Parton) Dr Robert F Thomas May his name forever stand Dr Robert F Thomas Was a mighty, mighty man And he enriched the lives Of everyone that ever knew h...

(Bill Owens) Like the morning sun His love moved across every inch of my body And the heat from the fire burned me up with desire I thought I'd died and gone ...

Oh, you drive me crazy I can't stop the way I feel Things you do don't seem real Tell you what I got in mind 'Cause we're runnin' out of time Just turn loose an...

(Curly Putman) Don't try to cry your way out of this Don't try to lie or I'll catch you in it Don't try to make me feel sorry for you Just because I'm blonde D...

He's got you cryin' oh he's done it again he's made a date and he didn't show You know he's done this to you so many times when you gonna let him go He doesn't ...

(S Dorff/A Rich) Hey girl, I wanna give you some friendly advice He's got you cryin', oh he's done it again He's made a date and he didn't show You know he's ...

Like the weather your heart changes with each season Springtime summer fall and winter too Though I know I'll never understand the reason I still wonder why eac...

She's been there God knows, she's been there She has seen and done it all She's a woman She knows how to dish it out or take it all Her heart's as soft as fea...

(Dolly Parton) I open up my door to greet the early morning sun Closing it behind me and away I do run To the meadow where the meadow lark is singing in the tr...

(Bob Lind) You might wake up some morning To the sound of something moving past your window in the wind And if you're quick enough to rise You'll catch the fle...

(Dolly Parton) I cry awake at night and hug my pillow And pray that I will die before I wake No such luck Another day of cryin' Don't know how much more my old...

(Dolly Parton) It's funny how love goes Cause I know this could never work out But honey, how love grows Even though there's no reason to doubt This can never ...

(Dolly Parton) My train of thought was broken by a sudden burst of laughter Something badly needed to brighten up the chores Seemed old Mrs Bailey had accident...

My train of thought was broken by a sudden burst of laughter Something badly needed to brighten up the chores Seemed old Mrs Bailey had accidentally fell In the...

(B Tosti/R O'Hearn) He takes the train into the city To him it's more than just a working day Cause he knows he can change the world in his ordinary way She's ...

(Dolly Parton) When I look out over a green field of clover Or watch the sun set at the end of the day I get kind of moody when I see such beauty And everythin...

(Dolly Parton) The hardest thing I've done or that I'll ever do Was to just walk off and leave you But I knew I had to leave you 'Cause I couldn't stay and wat...

(Bob Tubert & Demetrius Tapp) Folks back home think I'm a star now when they hear my records play They say there home town girl made good and she'd go a long l...

(Dolly Parton/Carl Perkins) When it's family, you forgive them for they know not what they do When it's family, you accept them, 'cause you have no choice but ...

Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder Why it should be thus all day long While there are others living about us Never molested though in the wrong When d...

Something in your eyes makes me want to lose myself Makes me want to lost myself in your arms There's something in your voice makes my heart beat fast Hope this...

Just a few old memories slipped in through my door Though I thought I had closed it so tightly before I can't understand it why it should bother my mind For it ...

FIGHT AND SCRATCH Duet by Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner Copyright 1970 Fight and scratch fight and scratch that's all we ever do There surely must be more to ...

Fight and scratch fight and scratch that's all we ever do There surely must be more to love than to fight and scratch with you You you to fight and scratch with...

FIGHT AND SCRATCH Duet by Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner Copyright 1970 Fight and scratch fight and scratch that's all we ever do There surely must be more to...

You and me cannot agree cause our love's the fightin' kind Oh yes you did you started it like you start all our fights No I didn't do no such thing and that a d...

Hey hey hey let me walk in the sunshine of your smile Let me hide in the shadows of your eyes Let me lie in the safety of your arms Let me be the fire that keep...

Familiar sounds tell me it's morning the night has been so dark and long Each night without you just gets longer While this torch I still carry just burns stron...

(The first Noel the angels did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay In fields where lay they're keeping their sheep On a cold winter's ni...

(Dolly Parton) I feel so out of place here With this high society These high fallutin' people Don't know what to make of me I feel like a minnow in a sea of Mo...

The fisherman are pitching pennies in the sand beside the sea And the sunrise hits their oilskin boots, their painted boats and me And they seem to know the oce...

I find myself remembering things I thought I'd forgot I thought I'd gotten over you but I can see I've not And seeing you has made me realize how wrong I've bee...

I can see the sunshine again And I can see the blue sky where there once was fog and rain We know each other now clear through and through The fog has lifted be...

(Kris Kristofferson) 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 t...

FORTY MILES FROM POPLAR BLUFF Duet by Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner Writers Larry Kingston, Frank Dycus Copyright 1970 I've never had a pair of shoes that we...

FRESH OUT OF FORGIVENESS Writers Bill Owens, Gene Gill Copyright 1960 Don't tell me you're sorry for thing you caused me And from from now on you'll be true An...

Don't tell me you're sorry for thing you caused me And from from now on you'll be true And don't don't you ask me to forgive you again I'm fresh out of forgiven...

(Dolly Parton) You kindle the fire of love inside me Each time our lips meet I'm not strong when we're alone Your kisses make me weak You must know how I feel ...

(Dolly Parton/Mac Davis) You've seen me naked in more ways than one You've seen me done up, seen me come undone We've cried in the darkness, we've laughed in t...

(Joe South) Oh the games people play now Every night and every day now Never meaning what they say now Never saying what they mean Oh they whine away the hours...

Gee, Ma, I wanna go, but they won't let me go Gee, Ma, I wanna go home Oh, the soldiers in the army, we know they're mighty fine And the Navy, Air Force and Mar...

Without a love to call my own my life was incomplete It seems I couldn't help but think that love was not for me My life took on a different twist when I met me...

I wish I could forget you, but I won't I wish I loved another, but I don't It's just the same, day after day Your memory keeps getting in my way But I'm hoping ...

I gave all the giving and I took all the taking I gave all my love to you and I took all your hurt I treated you so good but you treated me like dirt They say l...

Go tell it on the mountain over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born While shepherds kept their watch o'er silent floc...

Go to Hell, go to Hell, go back where you belong Get thee behind me Satan, just leave me the Hell alone Take your wars and your politics, your lust and your gre...

If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life And I had to start all over with just my family by my side I'd thank my lucky stars to be living...

Today as I was walking In the fields just down the way I sat down on a fallen log To pass the time away And as I looked around me The more that I did look the ...

(Dolly Parton) Glory to His name, oh, holy, holy There's a city where the streets are paved in gold A land where the milk and the honey flow And a mansion whic...

GOOD UNDERSTANDING Duet by Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner Writer Dolly Parton Copyright 1970 When we married we agreed that we'd both do as we please Just as ...

I've had to think up a way to survive Since you said it's over told me goodbye I just can't make it one day without you Unless I pretend that the opposite's tru...

(Blackwell/Hammer) You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain Too much love can drive a girl insane You broke my will oh but what a thrill Goodness gracious g...

Dawn is slowly breaking our friends have all gone home You and I are waiting for Santa Claus to come There's a present by the tree stockings on the wall Knowing...

I flew off to the wild blue yonder 'cause I had a dream And I had to go But I'm filled with a sense of wonder From the love I shared With a green-eyed boy Lips ...

I flew off to the wild blue yonder I had a dream and I had to go I'm filled with a sense of wonder from the love I shared with a green eyed boy Lips as sweet as...

We might have slept in a rail yard or camped by the river bank We fed ourselves from the fruit of the land and quenched our thirst with rain We never did allow ...

(Dolly Parton) Halos and horns, sinners and saints, Hearts that are torn between what's wrong and ain't Just because it feels right does not make it so So we s...

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY Writers Margo Sylvia, Gilbert Lopez Happy Happy Birthday Baby Although you're with somebody new Thought I'd drop a line to say That ...

(M Sylvia & G Lopez) Happy, happy birthday baby Although you're with somebody new Thought I'd drop a line to say That I wish this happy day Would find me besid...

(Tom T Hall) I want to tell you all a story 'bout a Harper Valley widow wife Who had a teenage daughter that attended Harper Valley Junior High Well her daught...

(Porter Wagoner) He left me love enough to last a lifetime A lifetime filled with loving memories And so I have no reason to search for new love Time could nev...

(Dolly Parton) In my mind I've made love to you often But only in my mind can it be so 'Cause there's someone at home that's countin' on me And if I did, I'm s...

He's a go getter, go getter When his wife gets off from work, he'll go get her Now I've got a neighbor that lives down the road a ways His wife holds down a ste...

The gates and doors were barred And all the windows fastened down I spent the night in sleeplessness And rose at every sound Half in hope of sorrow And half in ...

(Dolly Parton) Backstory: Tabloid prediction: Dolly Parton will announce she's falling madly in love with a 300 pound professional wrestler She'll write a so...

(Dolly Parton) Packin' my suitcase writin' a tear stained good-bye note Sayin' so long to a love gone wrong and that's all she wrote Leavin' behind what once w...

Here I sit all alone, thinkin bout what I should have known You made me think that I could need you You weaved your magic spell and I believed you Lookin back o...

Chorus: A heartsong melody play like a symphony The sweetest music I have ever known A song of joy and pain The mountain angels sing A bittersweet refreign of m...

If you're trying to reach Heaven You talk to Jesus, you talk to Him every day 'Cause Jesus knows, He knows that you are coming And Heaven's just a prayer away ...

(Dolly Parton) Hello God, are you out there? Can you hear me, are you listenin' any more? Hello God, if we're still on speakin' terms Can you help me like befo...

(John Lennon/Paul McCartney) Help, I need somebody Help, not just anybody Help, I need somebody Please, please help me When I was younger, so much younger than...

HER AND THE CAR AND THE MOBILE HOME Duet by Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner Writers Dave Kirby, Don Stock Copyright 1972 Well my wife and I were happy in our t...