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Lady Blonde And Fair
(from the LP "Just Dottie")
Brenda Burns
* 1984 Brenda Burns Music - BMI
Now you're gonna
marry a lady blonde and fair
I thought you always loved my auburn hair
Isn't she rather tall, she's not petite or small
That's not like you at all, but I guess that time will always change your
mind
I hear that you're now living out in the woods
I thought you always loved the neighborhood
Do you ever kiss her hands, do you call her your best friend
Can she fit under your chin, I guess that time will always change your mind
Guess that time will always change your mind
Funny what love can do
How it's taken a hold of you
And it changed the man I thought I knew
I thought I knew
You say her eyes are blue, it takes me by surprise
I thought you always loved my hazel eyes
Does she make your favorite dish, does she know your secret wish
Never thought we'd come to this, but I guess that time will always change
your mind
I guess that time will always change your mind
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Last Letter, The
(from the
LP "I'll Help You Forget Her")
Rex Griffin *
1939 Unichappel Music - ASCAP
Why do you treat
me as if I were only a friend
What have I done that has made you so distant and cold
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
And will you be happy when you are withered and old
No I cannot offer you diamonds or mansions so fine
And I cannot offer you all the clothes that your young body craves
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine
Why just think of the heartaches all the tears and the sorrow you'll save
When you grow weary and tired of another one's gold
When you get lonely remember this letter my own
But don't try to reach me though I've suffered anguish untold
If you don't love me, I just wish you would leave me alone
While I am writing this letter I think of the past
And of the promises that you have broken so free
And to this old world I'll soon say my farewell at last
Yes I will be gone when you read this last letter from me
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Last Time I Saw Him
(from the LP "House Of Love")
Michael
Masser & Pam Sawyer * 1973 Jobete Music - ASCAP
Last time I saw
him he sweetly kissed my lips
Last time I saw him he said 'I'll be back for more of this
Last time I saw him we were crying at the bus
I knew he hated leaving but he had to set us up
I gave him money
I know I invested well
Mama doesn't trust him but he loves me I can tell
Each day the greyhound arrives at nine o' clock
But I don't start my crying till that last man's gotten off
Chorus 1:
Last time I saw him, last time I saw my honey
Last time I saw him he was greyhound-bound
But I'm still waiting here without a fear
That bus will someday turn around
I've had no letter, it's been six months, maybe better
I try forgetting him but I love him more then ever
I have decided
I've waited long enough
If there was nothing wrong he would return right on that bus
There must be trouble so I'm leavin' on the double
If he can't get to me
I know he needs me desperately
Chorus 2:
Last time I saw him, last time I saw my honey
Last time I saw him he was looking fine
And as he waved good-bye he said don't cry
I'm coming back, come rain or shine
(Repeat 2nd chorus
2x)
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Last Word In Lonesome Is Me
(from the LP "Dottie Sings Eddy")
Roger Miller
* 1965 Tree Publishing - BMI
Chorus:
The last word in
lonesome is me the last word in lonesome is me
My heart is as lonely as a heart can be lonely
And the last word in lonesome
is me
Too bad what's happened to our good love
Too bad what's happened to our good love
But sometimes our best isn't quite good enough
And the last word in lonesome
is me
(Repeat chorus)
The last word in lonesome is me
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Lay Back Lover
(from
the LP "House Of Love")
Steve Pippin
& Rafe Van Hoy * 1974 Tree Publishing - BMI
Why don't we lay
back lover
Hold on to each other and let love take over from here
We've done the best we've could to keep love burnin'
There's not a thing we haven't tried
But just like children we're still learning
The ways to keep our love alive
We've spent too many days searchin' for some magic way
I overlooked the thing that was so near
So come on lay back lover and hold on to each other
And let love take over from here
It's time we realize that love is easy
It's not that hard to understand
If we want love with rhyme and reason
We've got to do it hand in hand
There's no sense wasting time tryin' to plan love line for line
When all we ever needed is right here
If we can just lay back lover and hold on to each other
And let love take over from here
Well you know love was always standing by
And lookin' us right in the eye
Oh, can't you hear it whisperin' in your ear for us to
Lay back lover and hold on to each other
And let love take over from here
(Repeat 2x and fade)
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Lay Down Beside Me
(from the
LP "What Are We Doin' In Love")
Don Williams
* 1973 Jack Music - BMI
I've spent my
life looking for you
Finding my way wasn't easy to do
But I knew there was you all the while
And it's been worth every mile
Chorus:
Lay down beside me and love me and hide me
Kiss all the hurting of this world away
Hold me so close that I feel your heartbeat
And don't ever wander away
Mornings and evenings all were the same
And there was no music 'til I heard your name
But I knew when I saw your smile
Now I can rest for a while, so
(Repeat chorus 5x
and fade)
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Leavin's For Unbelievers
(from the LP "Special Delivery")
Randy Goodrum
& Brent Maher * 1980 Blue Quill Music - ASCAP
Nobody likes
losin' a friend or a lover
Nobody likes being alone
Nobody wants to feel like
somebody don't need them
Nobody likes being alone
Chorus:
So stop. Turn around
Just look at what we're doin'
Callin' it quits
Like a couple of fools
Oh, stop. Come back
Let's try a little harder
'Cause leavin's for unbelievers
And I believe that we're in love
Everyone's had a little heartache inside them
But that ain't no reason
for sayin' goodbye
And everyone's seen
a little thunder and lightnin'
But that ain't no reason to run and hide
(Repeat chorus
2x)
I
believe that we're in love
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Left Over Corner Of Your Heart
(from
the LP "Dottie West Sings")
Dottie West,
Bill West & Charlie Dick * 1965 Tree Publishing - BMI
You tell me you
love her with all of your heart
And there's no room left there for me
But someday if she'll hurt you and your whole world falls apart
I'll take a left over corner of your heart
Chorus:
Just a left over corner of a heart not much as true
But it just goes to show how much I want you
For I'd give my heart full of true love for tiny little start
In that left over corner of your heart
(Repeat chorus)
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Left Over Feelings
(from
the LP "Country & West")
William C.
Rainsford * 1967 Careers Music - BMI
Slowly, very
slowly, you're fading away
And little by little I'm forgetting each day
So if I cry when I see you don't think I'm still your fool
It's just a left over feelings that I have for you
You know it takes quite a while to forget your whole world
Especially when the whole world was you
Oh but time has been kind to this heart of mine and your mem'ries are almost
blue
So don't think for a minute that I'll come back to you
Cause it's over and it's done our love affair is through
So if I cry when I see you don't think I'm still your fool
It's just the left over feelings that I have for you
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Less Of Me
(from the LP
"Country Girl")
Glen Campbell
* Campbell Allison Music - BMI
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 more cheery
Think a little more of others and a little less of me
Let me be a little braver when temptation bids me waver
Let me strive a little harder to be all that I should be
Let me be a little meeker with the brother that is weaker
Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me
Let me be when I am weary just a little bit more cheery
Let me serve a little better those that I am striving for
Let me be a little meeker with the brother that is weaker
Think a little more of others and a whole lot less of me
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Let It Be Me
(with Jimmy Dean) (with Kenny Rogers)
(from the LP
"Country Boy & Country Girl")
(from the LP "Every Time Two Fools Collide")
Manny Kurtz,
Pierre Delanoe & Gilbert Becaud * 1959 Leeds Music - BMI/ASCAP
I bless the day I
found you
I want to stay around you
And so I beg you, let it be me
Don't take this heaven from one
If you must cling to someone
Now and forever, let it be me
Each time we need love I find complete love
Without your sweet, sweet love what would life be
So never leave me lonely tell me you love me only
And that you'll always let
it be me
Now and forever let it be me
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Let Love Come
Looking For You
(from the
LP "Just Dottie")
Jan Buckingham *
1984 Duck Songs - BMI
When I was just a
little girl my mama said to me
The first time I started out to play
She said, 'girl you've got a lot to learn, patience is the key
Don't be in a hurry to give you heart away'
Chorus:
Let love
(will) come
looking for you
Don't try to track it down
When the time is right then love will find you
Let love (will) come looking for you
Remember what I said, I won't always be here to remind you
Got a little older I really got it now
Searching for someone who'll really want me
And endless string of heartbreaks finally got me down
Then my mama's words came back to haunt me
(Repeat chorus)
I got tired of
lookin', didn't worry anymore
That's when love came knocking at my door
I minded my own business, played it slow and cool
Kept the young man's interest, my mama didn't raise no fool
(Repeat chorus 3x
and fade)
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Let Me Off At The
Corner
(from the CD "RCA Country Legends: Dottie West")
Larry Kronberg &
Lou Meridith * 1963 Gil Music - BMI
You'd better go
no further, he'll recognize your car
And we both know I'd really have to pay
Let me off at the corner, lover, I'll walk the rest of the way
If he should see me with you, he'd start and awful fight
And I don't want to spoil our perfect day
Let me off at the corner, lover, I'll walk the rest of the way
He doesn't love me and oh, how well I know
What hateful things his jealous heart can do
He doesn't want me and yet, won't let me go
To find true happiness with someone new
Oh, but darling, please be patient, I'll work it out somehow
Then I won't have to slip around and say
Let me off at the corner, lover, I'll walk the rest of the way
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Let Me Talk To You
(from the LP "Suffer Time")
Danny Dill &
Don Davis * 1957 Cedarwood Publishing - BMI
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 ask me to
Don't run around, don't turn me down let me talk to you
Chorus:
Don't go too far with that crowd at the bar
That's not the way to win please fall in love again
Give me your heart so I can start to build our life anew
I know you've paid so if you're afraid
Let me talk to you
(Repeat chorus)
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Let's Take The Long
Way Around The World
(with Kenny Rogers)
(from the LP
"Classics")
Archie Jordan &
Naomi Martin * 1977 Universal Songs - BMI
In the daily rush
of things
If we stop to think it seems
We never have much time alone
Doin' things we have to do
Not much time for me and you
Before we know it, it will all be gone
Chorus
Let's take the
long way around the world
Sharing each other as we go
Let's take the long way around the world
Let's take it real slow
I get hungry just to talk, take you hand and take a walk
Never have you to myself enough
Two of us are really one when it's all said and done
The only thing
that really lasts is love
(Repeat chorus)
Let's take the long way around the world
Let's take it real slow
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Let's Wait A Little
Longer (with
Don Gibson)
(from
the LP "Rings Of Gold-Dottie & Don")
Billy Sherrill &
Curly Putman * 1967 Algee Music - BMI
I can see you are
not happy the way you've been acting
And I think you'd like to be free
Well,
I know he's a good man
But I know that you can be a whole lot happier with
me
In your eyes there's a yearning and inside you're a-burning
And I'm the one to put out the flame
So let's get together like birds of a feather
And we'll let the love take the
blame
Chorus:
But right now I don't think that I can leave him
For lately he's been so
good to me
And there might be one small chance that we can make it
So let's wait a little longer then we'll see
But the way I can make you forget him cause I'll take you
To places that you've never been
Oh, we'll make all the night spots the dim and the bright spots
And then we'll forget where we've been
Well, we'll walk sunny beaches and taste Georgia peaches
And swing from Maine to
Mexico
Well, if you'll come along we can make life a song
And you won't be tied down
anymore
(Repeat chorus)
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Like A Fool
(from
the LP "I'll Help You Forget Her")
Yvonne
Devaney * 1967 Party Time Music - BMI
I know it won't
be long until I hear from you
You'll be back as soon as you have lost your someone new
Giving me the run around the way you always do
Begging for another chance to prove your love is true
Chorus:
And like a fool I'll take you back again knowing old heartaches will start
again
And my tears will fall like rain again
And like a fool I'll let you make a fool of me again
I stopped counting long ago the times you made me blue
You can never change the way you are the things you do
You cheat and lie with every kiss and break my heart in two
Making promises of love that never do come true
(Repeat chorus)
Like a fool I'll let you make a fool of me again
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Little Things
(from
the LP "Country Girl")
Willie Nelson
& Shirley Nelson * 1967 Tree Publishing - BMI
I hope I won't
disturb you with this call,
I'm just in town for such a little while
And I thought perhaps you'd like to hear the news
Jeannie's grades were the highest in the school
Billy sure does look a lot like you,
I understand your other son does, too
And Billy said, 'tell daddy I miss him so'
These were some little things that I thought you'd like to know
Do you remember Sam and Peg who lived next door
With them it seemed we always laughed so much
Well Sam and Peg don't live there anymore
I understand that they broke up just like us
The house we lived in now has been torn down
Of all the things we owned, the last to go
A freeway now runs through that part of town
These were some little things I thought you'd like to know
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Lock, Stock And Teardrops
(With Don Gibson)
(from the LP "Rings Of Gold-Dottie & Don")
Roger Miller
* 1963 Tree Publishing - BMI
Someday I won't
come running when you call
The way you've hurt me it's a wonder I'm still here at all
Someday you'll wake up and you'll find yourself alone
Lock stock and teardrops I'll be gone
I can't go on the way you make me live
You make me cry and every time expect me to forgive
Someday you're gonna wake up to a cold, empty dawn
Lock stock and teardrops I'll be gone
Someday I'll find myself another town
With a pool of sympathy to let my sorrows drown
Someday I wake up (uh huh) find my self and move along
Lock stock and teardrops I'll be gone
Lock stock and teardrops I'll be gone
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Lonely Again
(from the LP "I'll Help You Forget Her")
Jean Chapel *
1967 Glad Music - BMI
You told me
that others before you
Were foolish to 'cause me to cry
And just when I learned to adore you
You kissed one more dream goodbye
And
left me
Chorus:
Lonely
again, just like you found me
Lonely again, no arms
around me
Just when I'm sure that my heart is secure
And my teardrops are dry with a warm glow inside
And this love of mine till the end of the line
That's always the time that I'm lonely again
You told me you wanted me only
And this time this love would last
You told me I'd never be lonely
But now you belong to the past
And I'm so
(Repeat chorus)
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