Long, Tall Texan
Composer(s): Henry Strzelecki
Performer(s): The Four Flickers
and multiple other artists



One, two, three, four

Giddy up
Giddy up

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I ride a big white horse
(He rides from Texas on a big white horse)

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I ride a big white horse
(He rides from Texas on a big white horse)

Well people look at me and say
Oh Roy, Oh Roy is that your horse?
(He rides from Texas on a big white horse)
Yeah

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I wear a ten gallon hat
(He rides from Texas with a ten gallon hat)

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I wear a ten gallon hat
(He rides from Texas with a ten gallon hat)

Well people look at me and say
Oh Roy, Oh Roy is that your hat?
(He rides from Texas with a ten gallon hat)
Yeah

Well I was walkin' down the street
With my shinin' badge
My spurs jinglin' down at my feet
I seen a man a comin'
Comin' with a gun
And I just can't be beat

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I enforce justice for the law
(He rides from Texas to enforce the law)

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I enforce justice for the law
(He rides from Texas to enforce the law)

Well people look at me and say
Oh Roy, Oh Roy is you the law?
(He rides from Texas to enforce the law)

Secret Love
Composer(s): Sammy Fain; Paul Francis Webster
First performance by: Doris Day - 1954
Covered by multiple other artists
 
Titles In Other Languages:
1954 - Hemmelig Kærlighed
1974 - Min Hem'li'hed



Once I had a secret love
That lived within the heart of me
All too soon my secret love
Became impatient to be free

So I told a friendly star
The way that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are
And why I'm so in love with you

Now, I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden daffodils
At last my hearts an open door
And my secret love's
No secret anymore

Long, Long Way To Go
Composer(s): Phil Collins
Performer(s): Phil Collins



While I sit here trying to think of things to say
Someone lies bleeding in a field somewhere
So it would seem we've still got a long, long way to go
I've seen all I want to see today
While I sit here trying to move you anyway I can
Someone's son lies dead in a gutter somewhere
And it would seem that we've got a long, long way to go
But I can't take it anymore
Turn it off if you want to
Switch it off it will go away
Turn it off if you want to
Switch it off or look away
While I sit and we talk and talk and we talk some more
Someone's loved one's heart stops beating in a street somewhere
So it would seem we've still got a long, long way to go, I know
I've heard all I want to hear today
Turn it off if you want to (turn it off if you want to)
Switch it off it will go away (switch it off it will go away)
Turn it off if you want to (turn it off if you want to)
Switch it off or look away (switch it off or look away)
Switch it off
Turn it off

Sad Sweet Dreamer
((French Version: Carolina (Joe Dassin))
Composer(s): Des Parton
Performer(s): Sweet Sensation



Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience
Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience 

Ooh-wah-wah ooh-wah-wah ooh
Ooh-wah-wah ooh-wah-wah ooh 

Been another blue day without you girl
Been another sad summer song
I've been thinking about you girl
All night long 

Been another sad tear on my pillow
Been another memory to tell me you're the one girl
I've been thinking about you girl
All night long 

Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience
Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience 

(Ooh-wah-wah ooh-wah-wah ooh)
Been another long night and I've missed you girl
(Ooh-wah-wah ooh-wah-wah ooh)
Been another story from those endless magazines
(Ooh-wah-wah ooh-wah-wah ooh)
Can't help thinking about you girl
All night long 

Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience
Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience 

Was so happy when I found you
But how was I to know?
That you would leave me walking down that road.....

Been another hard luck story
Been another man who thought that he was oh so strong
I've been thinking about you girl
All night long 

Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience
Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience
Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience
Sad sweet dreamer 
It's just one of those things you put down to experience

Long Way To Hollywood
Composer(s): Steve Young
Performer(s): Steve Young; Hank Williams



Babe, I hate to leave you down here
In this one horse town
Where the trains run through your early dreams
Just to leave an old wailing sound ...

Oh but I'll come back
I will return
Honey, won't you wait for me?
I'm bound to travel the USA
Across the desert to the sea

('Cause) I've got another song about the south
It's white and it's black
There ain't no banjo on my knee
But that song's on my back

It's a long long way to Hollywood
And a short change for fame
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know that's a southern game

It's a long long way to Hollywood
And a short change for fame
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know that's a southern game

I've got another song for all the old people
Down in the Georgia night
I know their wings are heavy
They been on a lonesome flight

All the old depression people
I know they took a heavy load
All their children, my kinfolk's and cousins
Still walking on Tobacco Road

Well they still talk about Hank Williams
Clinging unto his fame
Hey, I'm of the same race, I'm from the same place
I got the same lonesome blood in my veins

It's a long long way to Hollywood
And a short change for fame
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know that's a southern game ...

(I've Lost You) So Why Should I Care
Composer(s): Richard Howard
Performer(s): Ernest Tubb



The beautiful story is ended
Our wonderful romance is through
And I might have known it was only a dream 
For it all seemed too good to be true
For the wrongs that we do we must suffer
And that's just the reason we met
You came that I might make atonement 
Through you I must pay ev'ry debt

We bring nothing in the world with us
We can take nothing out when we go
So why should we care if we live or we die
When our gladness is turned into woe
I'll be glad when my sad life is over
When they lay me away to my rest
For while I must live broken hearted 
The worst can be only the best

Oh why should I care what becomes of me now 
I had nothing to live for but you 
Oh why should I care if I fall by the way 
When I know that no longer you're true 
My sorrow is sending me down to my grave 
'T is greater than I can bear 
If they bar me away, from heaven some day
I've lost you so why should I care

Long Way Back To Love
Composer(s): Ben Peters
Performer(s): Roy Drusky



Once I tried to tell you that some day his love would end
You just said it's none of mine concern
Now that it's all over you reach out for me again
Back across the bridges we have burned

But it's a long way back to love
Even though we're just a step apart
It's a long way back to love
All the way back through a broken heart

I didn't think that I could take it when you walked away
But somehow I made it all alone
Since you've left I've spent the most of ev'ry night and day
Gettin' used to knowin' you were gone

And it's a long way back to love
Even though we're just a step apart
It's a long way back to love
All the way back through a broken heart

It's a long way back to love
Even though we're just a step ...

I've Lost My Mummy
Composer(s): Rolf Harris
Performer(s): Rolf Harris



Just like the inside of any big shop
people were everywhere
Suddenly business was brought to a stop
when a terrible yell hit the air...

I've lost my mummy, a-ha-ha-haaaa
I've lost my mummy
I've lost my mummy, a-ha-ha-haaaa
I've lost my mummy!
ub, ub hup ub hup hup ub hup hup ub

People all gathered to look at the lad
patted him on the head
(Woman) Where was your mummy, when you saw her last?
Turning to her the boy said...

I've lost my mummy, a-ha-ha-haaaa
I've lost my mummy
I've lost my mummy, a-ha-ha-haaaa
I've lost my mummy!
ub, ub hup ub hup hup ub hup hup ub

Down came the manager to fix up the mess
took the small boy aside
(Manager) Come on now lad, let's have your name and address
With a lungful of air he replied...

I've lost my mummy, a-ha-ha-haaaa
I've lost my mummy
I've lost my mummy, a-ha-ha-haaaa
I've lost my mummy!
ub, ub hup ub hup hup ub hup hup ub

Well just then his mother appeared on the spot
gave him a hefty whack 
(Mother) That oughta teach you to go and get lost!
and the little boy's voice floated back...

I've found my mummy, a-ha-ha-haaaa
I've found my mummy
I've found my mummy, a-ha-ha-haaaa
I've found my mummy!
No mummy, I don't wanna go, no mummy I don't wanna, no mummy!

Long Train Runnin'
Composer(s): Tom Johnston
First release by: The Doobie Brothers - 1973
Covered by multiple other artists



Down around the corner a half a mile from here
you see them old trains runnin'
and you watch them disappear

Without love, where would you be now, without love?

You know I saw Miss Lucy down along the tracks
she lost her home and her family
and she won't be comin' back

Without love, where would you be now, without love?

Well, the Illinois Central
and the Southern Central Freight
gotta keep on pushin', Mama
`cause you know they're runnin' late

Without love, where would you be now, without love?

Well, the Illinois Central
and the Southern Central Freight
gotta keep on pushin', Mama
`cause you know they're runnin' late

Without love, where would you be now, without love?

Where pistons keep on churnin'
and the wheels go `round and `round
and the steal rails are cold and hard
for the miles that they go down

Without love, where would ya be right now
without love, where would you be now?

Got to get it, baby, baby, won't you move it down?
Won't you move it down?
Baby, baby, baby, baby, won't you move it down?
When the big train run
And the train is movin' on
I got to keep on movin'
Keep on movin'
Keep on movin'
Gonna keep on movin'

I've Lived, I've Loved, I'm Satisfied (What More Is There To Say?)
Composer(s): Lew Brown; Ben Barnett; Albert Von Tilzer



I found that life is worth living 
That hope is rewarded some day
I thought I'd never find happiness
But at last it has come my way

Some people long for great riches
For glory, some others will try
Heaven has blessed me with something that 
All the gold in the world can't buy

I longed for a wonderful sweetheart 
'T was then dear that I met you
I dreamed of a cottage with roses
My dream of that cottage came true
I prayed for the love of a baby 
And my prayers were answered one day
I've lived, I've loved, I'm satisfied 
What more is there to say

Long Time Woman
Composer(s): Les Baxter
Performer(s): Pam Grier



I'm a long time woman
And I'm serving my time
I've been locked away so long now
I've forgotten my crime
Been working on the road now
I've been working by the sea
Been a working in them cane fields
And I wanna be free

Well, ninety nine years
Is a long long time
Ninety nine years
Is such a long long long time
Ninety nine years
Is a long long time
Well, look at me
I'll never be free

I'm a long time woman
Ain't nobody to please
I got a natural feeling's
Like a bad disease

Well, ninety nine years
Is a long long time
Well, ninety, ninety nine years
Is such a long long time
Well, ninety nine years
Is a long long time
Well, look at me
I'll never be free

I'm a long time woman ...

I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
Composer(s): Curly Kinsley; Slim Sweet
Performer(s): Hank Williams; Johnny Duncan



Each year on Mother's Day
The rose I wore was red
But today I'm sayin' my first prayer
Mama's lying on her dying bed

I've just told mama goodbye
Mother's Day has turned to night
Like the flowers of May she withered away
And my red rose is turnin' white

This is the dreaded hour
We all must face some day
Yet there's consolation in my heart
She will bloom in the Master's bouquet

I've just told mama goodbye
Mother's Day has turned to night
Like the flowers of May she withered away
And my red rose is turnin' white

Her time has come to go
And there's nothin' I can do
Only hold her hand and say goodbye
Mama's day with her children is through

I've just told mama goodbye
And knelt beside her bed
I heard her say I'll meet you some day
Where the white roses turn to red

Long Time No See
Composer(s): Arthur Altman - James Cavanaugh
Performer(s): The Andrews Sisters; Woody Herman & His Orch.



Long time no see
Baby, what's the reason I get the go by
Like to know why long time no see
Long time adore
If you're on the level why don't you tell me
Why me no see you any more
Let him go, let him go
Ev'ryone keeps tellin' me
But my heart can no agree
Guess my heart knows best
And the rest is up to you
Honestly, am I just a fool for stringin' along
Oh baby what's wrong
Long time no see

Long time no see
Baby, what's the reason I get the go by
Like to know why long time no see
Long time oh I adore
If you're on the level why don't you tell me
Why me no see you any more, more, more
Let him go, let him go, let him go, let him go
Ev'ryone keeps tellin' me
But my heart can no agree
Ra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
You, me no see, what can it be
Maybe I'm crazy, but long time no see

Ra-ra-ra long time no see
What's the reason I get the go by
Like to know why long time no see
Me love you, you love who
Is it yes or is it noo
Do I stay or do I goo
I'd be in a stew if you ever said we're through
What to do
If you loved me tha way that I love you
It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be
Long time no see
It could be true that I love you
I miss you so, long time no see

I Just Found Out About Love
Composer(s): Harold Adamson; Jimmy McHugh
Performer(s): Dinah Washington



I just found out about love and I like it, I like it
I like what love has been doing to me
I hold you close in my arms and I like it, I like it
Oh, what a wonderful future I see

It’s a one time only
It’s a lifetime deal
And I know it’s real
I can tell by the way that I feel

Right now I’m livin’ it up and I like it, I like it
Hey you give me a clue
What’s love doing to you
Looks like you could be liking it too

I like it
Oh, what a wonderful future I see

It’s a one time only
It’s a lifetime deal
And I know it’s real
I can tell by the way that I feel

Right now I’m livin’ it up and I like it, I like it
Hey you give me a clue
What’s love doing to you
Looks like you could be liking it too

Hey you give me a clue
What’s love doing to you
Looks like you could be liking it too

Long Time Gone
Composer(s): Tex Ritter - Frank Hartford
First release by: The Everly Brothers - 1958



You cheated me and made me lonely
I tried to be your very own
There'll be a day you'll want me only 
But when I leave, I'll be a long time gone
Be a long time gone, be a long time gone
Yes, when I leave, I'll be a long time gone

You're gonna be sad, you're gonna be weeping
You're gonna be blue and all alone
You'll regret the day you seen me leaving 
'Cause when I leave, I'll be a long time gone
Be a long time gone, be a long time gone
'Cause when I leave, I'll be a long time gone 

You'll see my face through tears and sorrow
You'll miss the face you called your own
Baby, there'll be no tomorrow 
'Cause when I leave, I'll be a long time gone 
Be a long time gone, be a long time gone
Yes, when I leave, I'll be a long time gone 

I've Heard That Song Before
Composer(s): Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn
Performer(s): Helen Forrest
and multiple other artists



It seems to me I've heard that song before
It's from an old familiar score
I know it well, that melody
It's funny how a theme recalls a favorite dream
A dream that brought you so close to me

I know each word because I've heard that song before
The lyrics said "Forever more"
Forever more's a memory
Please have them play it again
And I'll remember just when
I heard that lovely song before

Long Time
Composer(s): Tom Scholz
Performer(s): Boston



It's been such a long time
I think I should be going
And time doesn't wait for me
It keeps on rolling
Sail on
On a distant highway
I've got to keep on chasing a dream
I've gotta be on my way
Wish there was something I could say

Well, I'm taking my time
I'm just moving on
You'll forget about me after I've been gone
And I take what I find
I don't want no more
It's just outside of your front door
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's been such a long time
It's been such a long time

Well (Woo?) I get so lonely
When I am without you
But in my mind, deep in my mind
I can't forget about you
Good times
And faces that remind me
I'm trying to forget your name
And leave it all behind me
You're coming back to find me

Well, I'm taking my time
I'm just moving on
You'll forget about me after I've been gone
And I take what I find
I don't want no more
It's just outside of your front door
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's been such a long time
It's been such a long time

It's been such a long time
I think I should be going
And time doesn't wait for me
It keeps on rolling
There's a long road
I've gotta stay in time with
I've got to keep on chasing that dream
Though I may never find it
I'm always just behind it

Well, I'm taking my time
I'm just moving on
You'll forget about me after I've been gone
And I take what I find
I don't want no more
It's just outside of your front door
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's been such a long time
It's been such a long time

Well, I'm taking my time
I'm just moving on
(Repeat) ...

I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
(Dutch & Spanish Versions: Ik Voel Dat Ik Haar Mis (Wim Sonneveld); A Su Mirar Me Acostumbré (Manolo Fabregas))
Composer(s): Alan Jay Lerner - Frederick Loewe
First performance/First release by: Rex Harrison - 1956
Covered by multiple other artists



Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!
I've grown accustomed to her face
She almost makes the day begin
I've grown accustomed to the tune
That she whistles night and noon
Her smiles, her frowns
Her ups, her downs
Are second nature to me now
Like breathing out and breathing in

I was serenly independent
And content before we met
Surely I could always be that way again - and yet
I've grown accustomed to her look
Accustomed to her voice
Accustomed to her face

Marry Freddy 
What an infantile idea 
What a heartless, wicked, brainless thing to do 
But she'll regret it 
It's doomed before they even take the vow

I can see her now, Mrs. Freddy Eynsford-Hill
In a wretched little flat above a store
I can see her now, not a penny in the till
And a bill collector beating at the door
She'll try to teach the things I taught her
And end up selling flowers instead
Begging for her bread and water
While her husband has his breakfast in bed

In a year or so, when she's prematurely grey
And the blossom in her cheek has turned to chalk
She'll come home and lo
He'll have upped and run away
With a social-climbing heiress from New York
Poor Eliza. How simply frightful!
How humiliating! How delightful!

How poignant it'll be on that inevitable night
When she hammers on my door in tears and rags
Miserable and lonely, repentant and contrite
Will I take her in or hurl her to the walls?
Give her kindness or the treatment she deserves?
Will I take her back or throw the baggage out?

But, I'm a most forgiving man
The sort who never could, never would
Take a position and staunchly never budge
A most forgiving man

But I shall never take take her back
If she were even crawling on her knees
Let her promise to atone
Let her shiver, let her moan
I'll slam the door and let the hell-cat freeze!

Marry Freddy, Ha!

But I'm so used to hear her day
"Good morning" ev'ry day
Her joys, her woes
Her highs, her lows
Are second nature to me now
Like breathing out and breathing in

I'm very grateful she's a woman
And so easy to forget, rather like a habit
One can always break - and yet
I've grown accustomed to the trace
Of something in the air
Accustomed to her face

Long Thin Dawn
Composer(s): Gordon Lightfoot
First release by: Gordon Lightfoot - 1968



That long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again
I've seen the hills of Frisco and the streets of Montreal
In every town I've been to, I've had someone to call
From Winnipeg to Edmonton, Vancouver to St. Paul
I've had so many good friends I couldn't miss them all
And that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

Last night I came to Denver beneath the snow-capped ridge
I thought about my darling as I stood beneath the bridge
And there were times I made her cry but I guess by now she's learned
that any time I've wandered, I always have returned
And that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

Right now I'm on a highway just east of Omaha
riding shotgun on the biggest rig you ever saw
With forty tons of pig iron and a trucker known as Bill
all the way to Windsor, we've got some miles to kill
And that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

While climbing up a hillside, Bill drops her down a gear
And the engine sings so sweetly, 'tis music to my ear
I tell him how I long to be just like him if I can
driving like the restless wind across this precious land
and that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

Says Bill "the air is clean tonight" as he puffs a big cigar
"and if this rig keeps rolling, my boy you'll travel far
But when you are a trucker you'll come to realize
the only thing a man can do is watch the world go by"
And that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again
That long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

I've Gotta Sing Away These Blues
Composer(s): Jeri Cooper
Performer(s): Doris Day



My sweet man's left me
And I've got a torch I must lose
I may have to die some
And surely I'll cry some
But I've gotta sing away these blues

It's heartbreak time now
And so it's a sad song I choose
You may find it dreary
But Lord I'm so weary
I've gotta sing away these blues

I thought my role was certain
He was mine, he was mine, he was mine
But then fate rang down the curtain
And all I have left is a heart that's bereft

And now it's over
And I'm still payin' love's dues
My heart was a glad thing
That turned into sad thing
I've gotta sing away these blues

Yes I've gotta sing away these blues
These blues