lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

LITTLE SPARROW

(Dolly Parton) « © '01 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Little sparrow little sparrow precious fragile little thing
Little sparrow little sparrow flies so high and feels no pain

All ye maidens heed my warning never trust the hearts of men
They will crush you like a sparrow leaving you to never mend

They will vow to always love you swear no love but yours will do
Then they'll leave you for another break your little heart in two

Little sparrow little sparrow...
[ fiddle ] If I were a little sparrow o'er these mountains I would fly
I would find him I would find him look into his lying eyes

I would flutter all around him on my little sparrow wings
I would ask him I would ask him why he left me loving him

I am not a little sparrow I am just the broken dream
Of a cold false-hearted lover and his evil cunning scheme

Little sparrow little sparrow...

All ye maidens fair and tender never trust the hearts of men
They will crush you like a sparrow leaving you to never mend
Little sparrow little sparrow oh my sorrow never ends
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2.

SHINE

(Ronald E. Eugene) « © '01 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Gimme a word gimme a sign
Show me where to look and tell me what will I find
What will I find
Lay me on the ground fly me in the sky
Show me where to look and tell me what will I find
What will I find

Yeah oh heaven let your light shine down
Oh heaven let your light shine down
Oh heaven let your light shine down
Oh heaven let your light shine

Love is in the water love is in the air
Show me where to go and tell me will love be there
Will love be there
Teach me how to speak teach me how to share
Teach me where to go and tell me will love be there
Will love be there

Yeah oh heaven let your light shine down...

Gimme a word gimme a sign
Show me where to look And tell me what will I find
What will I find
Lord teach me how to speak teach me how to share
Teach me where to go and tell me will love be there
Will love be there

Yeah oh heaven let your light shine down...

Oh heaven let your light shine down
Let it shine let it shine let it shine
Heaven let your light shine down let it shine
Heaven let your light shine down
Shine heaven let your light shine down
Heaven let your light shine down

Shine shine just gimme a word gimme a sign shine
Let it shine let it shine
Teach me how to share teach me where to go
Tell me will love be there shine
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3.

I DON'T BELIEVE YOU'VE MET MY BABY

(Autry Inman) « © '55 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Last night my tears they were falling I went to bed so sad and blue
Then I had a dream of you
I dreamed I was strolling in the evening underneath the harvest moon
I was thinking about you
And then you met me in the moonlight the stars we shining in your eyes
But another was there too
I don't believe you've met my baby you looked at her you looked at you
I wondered who you were talking to
[ fiddle - mandolin ] I shook the hand of the stranger but I was shaking more inside
Cause I was still wondering who
Your arm was resting on her shoulder you smiled at her she smiled at you
Her eyes were filled with victory
She said my brother wants to marry and then my heart was filled with grief
I knew that you would marry me
[ dobro ] Oh I don't believe you've met my baby you looked at her you looked at me
I knew that you would marry me
I don't believe you've met my baby
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4.

MY BLUE TEARS

(Dolly Parton) « © '71 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Fly ye away from my window little bluebird
Fly ye as far as you can away from here
And let not your song fall upon my ear
Go spread your blue wings and I'll shed my blue tears

For the one that I have loved he has left me and gone
And I'm in no mood for to hear your sad song
And bring not your light into my dark blue yellow sunshine
Waste not your warmth on the coldness in here
Oh trouble me not go ye elsewhere
Go light your blue sky and I'll shed my blue tears

For the only one that I have ever loved he has gone away
Now I am in no mood for the sunshine today

Cause I don't know when or if ever again
I will see his sweet face but I fear
It's forever goodbye though I can't say why
But I'll sit here and cry my lonely blue tears

Go spread your blue wings light your blue sky
I'll shed my blue tears my blue tears my blue tears
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5.

SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD

(Steve Young) « © '69 Irving Music, BMI »
There are stars in the southern sky southward as you go
There is moonlight and moss in the trees down the seven bridges road

I have loved you like a baby like some lonesome child
I have loved you in a tame way and I have loved you wild

Sometimes there is a part of me has to turn from here and go
Running like a child from these warm stars down the seven bridges road
[ dobro - fiddle ] There are stars in the southern sky and if ever you decide you should go
There is a taste of time sweet as honey down the seven bridges road

There are stars in the southern sky southward as you go
There is moonlight and moss in the trees down the seven bridges road
Down the seven bridges road
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6.

BLUER PASTURES

(Dolly Parton) « © '00 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
I was looking for greener pastures
When I left my old Kentucky home
I was chasing after dreams I thought I'd master
So I left the one who loved me all along

Thinking only of myself and doing better
Didn't care about the grief I left behind
Didn't even make a card or write a letter
So sure I'd be successful in no time

Now I'm heading for bluer pastures
And back to the one who's heart I broke
To the bluegrass state of ol' Kentucky
Where he waits with open for me I hope
[ fiddle - dobro ] Ain't it funny how you are when you're younger
How what you have is never good enough
How the years will find you searching through your plunder
Looking for the treasures you gave up

Well the seasons came they went the dreams all shattered
While the grass just stayed a lonely shade of brown
Then I realized I'd lost all that had mattered
So with foolish pride aside I'm homeward bound

Now I'm heading for bluer pastures...

Now I'm heading for bluer pastures
Where the blue grass waves sweetly in the wind
Where the bluegrass music's always playing
To the haunting sound of Monroe's mandolin
I'm heading for bluer pastures
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7.

TENDER LIE

(Randy Sharp) « © '88 Longitude Music, BMI »
As you walk away as we say goodbye
What I wouldn't give for a tender lie

Say you'll never stop loving me just as if it were true
How much more damage now honestly could one tender lie do

When we fall so far are we wrong to try
To keep up the truth with a tender lie

Say you're gonna come back to me and I'll believe that it's true
How much more damage now honesly could one tender lie do
[ dobro - mandolin - fiddle ] Say you're gonna come back to me...
How much more damage now honestly could one tender lie do
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8.

I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU

(Cole Porter) « © '34 WB Music, ASCAP »
I get no kick from champagne
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you

Some people go for cocaine
I'm sure that if I took even one sniff
That would bore me terrifically too
Still I get a kick out of you

I get a kick every time I see you
Standing there before me
I get a kick though it's clear to see you
Obviously don't adore me

I get no kick in a plane
Flying too high with some guy in the sky
Is my idea of nothing to do
Still I get a kick out of you
Yes I get a kick out of you
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9.

MOUNTAIN ANGEL

(Dolly Parton) « © '01 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Pretty as an angel from the day that she was born
Skin as fair as Lily's hair as golden as the corn
They knew that she was special from the moment she first cried
She was a mountain angel certified

She was her momma's baby she was her daddy's pride
Good at home at church and school at everything she tried
Everybody's darling led a charmed and peaceful life
The perfect mountain angel till he arrived

And oh oh she fell so deeply
Oh oh she couldn't stop
She gave herself to him milled it completely
He lifted her so high he let her drop

She gave up everything for him that mattered in her life
All the others that had loved her and she vowed to be his wife
She dreamed of bearing children in an ivy-covered house
The mountain angel's sunshine turned to clouds

The wicked handsome stranger left the way he came
Broke her heart and broke her mind she never was the same
They say he was the devil that had come to steal her soul
She never loved another it was told

They say she had a baby some say that it had died
They say it's just as well as it had been the devil's child
They say good conquers evil but here evil won the prize
So the mountain angel took to the wild

And oh oh she couldn't take it
Years passed and she had long since lost her mind
She waited for him as her beauty faded
Her parents died from grief before their time

She tried to gather pieces of her life they wouldn't fit
Beside the tiny grave deep in the woods is where she'd sit
Talking to the child herself to him who knew for sure
Possessed they say by satan's insane lure

High a top the mountain for years they say she's seen
Looking down upon the town where she had once been queen
She'd sneak around the playground watch the little children play
They'd see the crazy lady then run away

They say she roamed these hills for years wearin' not a stitch
The lovely mountain angel now thought to be a witch
She made those wailing mournful sounds that you could hear for miles
Long after she laid down upon her baby's grave and died

And oh oh her ghost is callin'
She's waiting for the ones that she adored
Through spring and summer fall when snow is fallin'
Her spirit roams these hills forever more
The mountain angel's voices ever more ooh ohh ohh
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10.

MARRY ME

(Dolly Parton) « © '01 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Well I met a boy from Grassy Branch fine as he can be
I met him at the big barn dance and he took a shine to me
Sky-blue eyes a big wide smile and tall as a sycamore tree
He's real smart with a real big heart and he's gonna marry me

He's gonna marry me and we're gonna go to town
We're gonna buy some real good car and we're gonna drive around
We'll hold hands and touch and hug he talks so sweet to me
Cause he knows a lot about love and stuff and he's gonna marry me
[ mandolin - fiddle ] His mama don't like me one little bit but you know I don't care
Let her pitch her hissy-fit cause I ain't a marryin' her
He's always been a mama's boy it's just plain jealousy
She's as mad as an old red hen cause he's gonna marry me

Oh he's gonna marry me and he's gonna buy me a ring
We're gonna be so free cut mama's aprin strings
He's gonna build me a pretty little house have a pretty little made-for-three
Cause he done kiss me on the mouth and he's gonna marry me

Yeah he's gonna marry me he's gonna buy me a ring
Yeah he's done kiss me on the mouth and he's gonna marry me
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11.

DOWN FROM DOVER

(Dolly Parton) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide the secret I have tried concealing
When he left he promised me he'd be back by the time it was revealing
The sun behind a cloud just casts the crawling shadow o'er the fields of clover
And time is running out for me I wish that he would hurry down from Dover

He's been gone so long when he left the snow was deep upon the ground
And I have seen a spring and summer pass and now the leaves are turning brown
And any time a tiny face will show itself cause waiting's almost over
But I won't have a name to give it if he doesn't hurry down from Dover
From Dover from Dover

My folks weren't understanding when they found out they sent me from the homeplace
My daddy said if folks found out he'd be ashamed to ever show his face
My mama said I was a fool and she did not believe it when I told her
Mama everything's gonna be alright cause soon he'll be coming down from Dover

I found a place to stay out on a farm taking care of that old lady
She never asked me nothing so I never talked to her about my baby
I sent a messgae to my mom with a name and address of Miss ol' Grover
And to make sure he got that information when he came down from Dover

I loved him more than anything and I could not refuse him when he needed me
He was the only one I'd loved and I just can't believe that he was using me
He wouldn't leave me here like this I know it can't be so it can't be over
He wouldn't make me go through this so long he'll be coming down from Dover

My body aches the time is here it's lonely in this place where I'm a lyin'
Our baby has been born but something's wrong it's too still I hear no cryin'
I guess in some strange way she knew she'd never have a father's arms to hold her
So dying was her way of telling me he wasn't coming down from Dover
From Dover from Dover down from Dover from Dover
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12.

BEAUTIFUL LIE

(David McDade) « © '01 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Everytime the bluebird sings my heart takes wings to the sky
The bluebird greyside fly to my place in your eyes
Cause after all I did all I could and you did your best just the same
Nobody won we both lost no one's to blame
But I'll fly away to you if I only pretending
We'll be like bluebirds do the beautiful lie
The beautiful lie the beautiful lie

Everytime the bluebird sings...
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13.

IN THE SWEET BY AND BY

(Joseph P. Webster - Sanford F. Bennett) « © '58 PD World »
There's a land that is fairer than day
And by faith we can see it apart
For the father waits over the way
To prepare us a dwelling place there

In the sweet by and by
We shall meet on that beautiful shore
In the sweet by and by
We shall meet on that beautiful shore

We shall sing on that beautiful shore
The melodious songs of the blest
And our spirit shall sorrow no more
Not a sign for the blessing of rest

In the sweet by and by...
In the sweet by and by...
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14.

LITTLE SPARROW

(Dolly Parton) « © '01 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
[ instrumental ] **********