Country Gold

• Trouble In The Fields
• Cold Hearts / Closed Minds
• I Knew Love
• Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool
• From A Distance
• Never Mind
• Once In A Very Blue Moon
• I Wish It Would Rain
• Listen To The Radio
• Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights

Trouble In The Fields

Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fields
When the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yield
The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain
They leave our pockets full of nothing
But our dreams and the golden grain

Have you seen the folks in line downtown at the station
They're all buying their ticket out and talking the great depression
Our parents had their hard times fifty years ago
When they stood out in these empty fields in dust as deep as snow

Chorus:
And all this trouble in our fields
If this rain can fall, these wounds can heal
They'll never take our native soil
But if we sell that new John Deere
And then we'll work these crops with sweat and tears
You'll be the mule I'll be the plow
Come harvest time we'll work it out
There's still a lotta love, here in these troubled fields

There's a book up on the shelf about the dust bowl days
And there's a little bit of you and a little bit of me
In the photos on every page
Now our children live in the city and they rest upon our shoulders
They never want the rain to fall or the weather to get colder

(Repeat chorus)

You'll be the mule I'll be the plow
Come harvest time we'll work it out
There's still a lotta love, here in these troubled fields

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Cold Hearts/Closed Minds

My bags are waiting in a cab downstairs
I've got a ticket in my pocket says I'll make it out of here
And I came by here just to tell you good-by
I can see it in your face, you don't want to know why

Chorus:
I made up my mind late last night
That I would leave your city behind
Oh, and love is not in question
When you're holding the answer
In your cold heart and your closed mind
You've got a cold heart and a closed mind

Out in these streets these people are angry
Well, they push and shove one another aside
Well, I worked from the heart and you worked for the money
But I paid the price for your will to survive

(Repeat chorus) Chicago roars like a midwest hurricane
I see that storm in your eyes
One of these mornings when you're making your way
Just gonna wash you out with the tide

(Repeat first verse)

(Repeat chorus)

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I Knew Love

I knew love
When it still meant forever
When a feeling shared didn't always
have to hurt
And a promise that was made would
go unbroken
I knew love
When it was more than just a word

I knew a time
When hope was all you needed
And if you cared you found a way to
make things work
When life was what two people
shared together
Oh, I knew love
When it was more than just a word

Chorus:
I knew love
When I could still believe
It was the greatest power in
the world
I knew love
When it was more than just a word

I knew hearts
When they made it all so easy
And sad goodbyes were seldom
ever heard
When I wouldn't have to read this
note that says you're leaving
I knew love
When it was more than just a word

(Repeat chorus)

I knew love when it was
more than just a word

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Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool

You can cuss the daylights outta this
pale winter moon
We could ponder every reason why
your true love was untrue
You can cry your eyes out 'cuz I've
got a shoulder here for you
But, every day your broken heart is
gonna turn a lighter shade of blue

Chorus:
Oh, anyone can be somebody's fool
Just look at me... I once was a fool
for you
So you know it's true
Anyone can be somebody's fool

Out in this lonely town there is a
lovely silver frost
So, we could stop and have another round
for this true love that you've lost
It's gonna take a little time before
your emptiness grows old
But underneath that silver frost...
you've still got a heart of gold

(Repeat chorus)

Hey, when this winter's over
You're gonna walk knee deep in clover
You know your heart will 'round the corner
And you're gonna feel brand new

(Repeat chorus)

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From A Distance

From a distance the world looks blue and green
And the snow-capped mountains white
From a distance the ocean meets the stream
And the eagle takes to flight

From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace
It's the voice of every man

From a distance we all have enough
And no one is in need
There are no guns, no bombs, no diseases
No hungry mouths to feed

From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common band
Playing songs of home, playing songs of peace
They're the songs of every man
God is watching us, God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance

From a distance you look like my friend
Even though we are at war
From a distance I can't comprehend
What all this war is for

From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves
It's the heart of every man

It's the hope of hopes, It's the love of loves
It's the song of every man

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Never Mind

You say you're heading out to
California
You've heard the grapes are falling
from the vine
I was hoping you might have the
urge to write me
But, I don't believe you will...
so never mind

I was talking to a man down at Genesco
He said they might be hiring any time
I'm so tired of going any way the
wind blows
And I thought that me and you...
but never mind

Chorus:
Never mind... never mind
I'm just talkin' through the wine
And you know that drinkin' always
makes me sad
But before this night is through...
I better say I love you
Or I'm gonna always wish that
I had

I first saw you pickin' oranges
in Orlando
All day you kept your ladder close
to mine
We froze in Georgia... burned up
in Chicago
And I always thought that we...
but never mind

Did you know today my baby called
you daddy?
Sometimes I've wished that she was
yours and mine
I could call my brother Milt in Cincinnati
And ask him for a loan...
but never mind

(Repeat chorus)

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Once In A Very Blue Moon

I found your letter in my mailbox today
You were just checkin' if I was okay
And if I miss you, well, you know what they say ...

Just once ... in a very blue moon
Just once in a very blue moon
Just once ... in a very blue moon
and I feel one comin' on soon

No need to tell me, you'd like to be friends
and help me get back on my feet again
If I miss you at all ... it's just now and then

Just once ... in a very blue moon
Just once in a very blue moon
just once ... in a very blue moon
and I feel one comin' on soon

There's a blue moon shinin'
when I am reminded of all we've been through
Such a blue moon ... shinin'
Does it ever shine down on you?
You act as if it never hurt you at all
Like I'm the only one who's gettin' up from a fall
Don't you remember?
Can't you recall?

Just once ... in a very blue moon
Just once in a very blue moon
Just once ... in a very blue moon
and I feel one comin' on soon ... just once ... in a very
... blue moon

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I Wish It Would Rain

Chorus:
Oh, I wish it would rain
And wash my face clean
I want to find some dark cloud to
hide in here
Love in a memory
Sparkled like diamonds
When the diamonds fall... they burn
like tears
When the diamonds fall... they burn
like tears

Once I had a love from the
Georgia pines
Who only cared for me
I wanna find that love of twenty-two
Here at thirty-three
I've got a heart on my right
One on my left... neither suits my needs
No, the one I love lives a-way out West
And he never will need me

(Repeat chorus)

I'm gonna pack up my two steppin' shoes
And head for the Gulf Coast plains
I wanna walk the streets of my
own hometown
Where everybody knows my name
I wanna ride the waves down
in Galveston
When the hurricanes blow in
'Cuz that Gulf Coast water tastes
sweet as wine
When your heart's rollin' home in
the wind

(Repeat chorus)

When the diamonds fall darlin'... they
burn like tears

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Listen To The Radio

I am leaving Mississippi in the evening rain
These Delta towns wear satin gowns
in a high beamed frame
Loretta Lynn guides my hands through the radio
Where would I be in times like these
without the songs Loretta wrote?

Chorus)
When you can't find a friend
you've still got the radio
When you can't find a friend
you've still got the radio
Radio . . . listen to the radio
Radio . . . listen to the radio

I left a handsome two stepped good ole boy in Tennessee
Now, he's sittin' on the sofa, lookin' for his supper,
wonderin' what's become of me
I've got a double-o-eighteen Martin guitar in the
back seat of the car
Hey, I'm leaving Mississippi . . .
With the radio on

(Repeat chorus)

There's a moon across the border in the Louisiana sky
I smell the Pontchartrain, I hear Silver Wings
then, away Merle Haggard flies
That good ole boy will find a Band of Gold
on the stereo
Hey, then my Mama's gonna call and say,
"Where's she gone?"
He'll say, "Down the road with the radio on."

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Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights

Sister had a crystal voice
She played a Silvertone from Montgomery Ward
Baez songs in Monroe hair
She sure could turn the boys' heads to stare
Swim wear saunter, tan and haunt them
that's all she learned in school
Books were for the other girls
and the other girls were fools
In Texas back in sixty-nine
it was drive-in movies and dashboard lights

Father waltzed her down the aisle
cuz college didn't suit her style
The sad truth was that she could barely read
but, if you'd told dear Father . . .
he wouldn't believe you
The telephone rang . . . it drove Mother insane
from the hearts left on the shelf
Sister's gone and she won't be home
Cuz she didn't take care of herself
In Texas back in sixty-nine
it was drive-in movies and dashboard lights

Chorus:
Where is she now?
The backseat Queen of fraternity
Where is she now?
She is heavy of thigh and light on integrity
Someone should've told her
when beauty's all you offer
Too soon the world discovers that your
beauty's gone
(It's gone . . .)

Mother can't you hear your daughter crying
Father wake up her youth is dying
Her kids are grown . . . Husband's gone away
it's a shame cuz she had such a lovely face
Can't you see she needed more
than, "Oh, what a pretty child"?
You never taught her truth from lie
all you told her was to smile
In Texas back in sixty-nine
it was drive-in movies and dashboard lights

(Repeat chorus)

In Texas back in sixty-nine
it was drive-in movies and dashboard . . . lights

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