Silk Purse (1970)Lyrics as performed by Linda Ronstadt |
Lovesick Blues Are My Thoughts With You? Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Nobody's Louise Long Long Time Mental Revenge I'm Leavin' It All Up to You He Dark the Sun Life Is Like a Mountain Railway
Lovesick Blues written by I Mills & C Friend I got a feeling called the blues oh Lord Since my baby said goodbye And Lord I don't know what I'll do All I do is sit and cry oh Lord That last long day he said goodbye Oh Lord I thought I would die He'll do you He'll do me He's got that kind of loving Lord I love to hear him when he calls me sweet mama Such a beautiful dream I'd hate to think it's all over I lost my heart it seems I've grown so used to him somehow Well I'm nobody's sugar mama now And I'm lonesome I got the lovesick blues Well I'm in love I'm in love and it's easy to say That's what's the matter with me I'm in love I'm in love and it's easy to say That he don't care about me Well I tried and I tried to keep him satisfied But he just wouldn't stay And now that he is leaving Well this is all I can say I got a feeling called the blues oh Lord Since my baby said goodbye And Lord I don't know what I'll do All I do is sit and cry oh Lord I've grown so used to him somehow Well I'm nobody's sugar mama now And I'm lonesome I got the lovesick blues |
Are My Thoughts With You? written by Mickey Newbury I'm gonna plant me some seed Grow me an ocean Cut me some trees And build me an island Stand on the corner Flag down a streetcar Go somewhere and phone him And ask him where my thoughts are I'm gonna say to him Are my thoughts with you babe How twisted, babe, are they Since you went away, babe I ain't been thinking too straight And if that don't get through I'm gonna build me a flower Sit down in the morning dew And kiss it every hour I'm gonna turn out the lights Turn on the night Give up the fight Go for a flight Catch me a kite Who cares what's right or wrong When I get to the moon Rent me a room Sit in the gloom All alone And cry are my thoughts with you babe How twisted, babe, are they You know, since you went away, babe I ain't been thinking too straight I'm gonna turn out the lights Turn on the night Give up the fight Go for a flight Catch me a kite Who cares what's right or wrong When I get to the moon Rent me a room Sit in the gloom All alone And cry are my thoughts with you babe |
Will You Love Me Tomorrow? written by Gerald Goffin and Carole King Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc (BMI) Tonight you're mine completely You give your love so sweetly Tonight the light of love is in your eyes But will you love me tomorrow Is this a lasting treasure Or just a moment's pleasure Have I believed the magic of your sighs Will you still love me tomorrow Tonight with words unspoken You said that I'm the only one But will my heart be broken When the night meets the morning sun I'd like to know that your love Is a love I can be sure of So tell me now and I won't ask again Will you still love me tomorrow So tell me now and I won't ask again Will you still love me tomorrow Will you still love me tomorrow Will you still love me tomorrow |
Nobody's written by Gary White One year later I saw her Wearing a face in a strange disguise Carried a smile they taught her Gives it away at the edge of her eyes Didn't I see the sunshine through the rainfall She's crying and she knows it She's crying and she shows it on the outside now Whatever happened to the girl that was Did she go inside because it's cold out here Sooner or later she told me I am in love again, truly this time Nothing at home left to hold me The city's just great and the world treats me fine Didn't she think I heard that old refrain before She's lying and she knows it She's lying and she shows it on the outside now Whatever happened to the girl that was Did she go inside because it's cold out here Didn't she think I'd seen someone in pain before She's crying and she knows it She's crying and she shows it on the outside now Whatever happened to the girl that was Did she go inside because it's cold out here |
Louise written by Paul Siebel Well they all said Louise was not half bad It was written on the walls and window shades And how she'd act a little girl A deceiver, don't believe her, that's her trade Sometimes a bottle of perfume Flowers and maybe some lace Men brought Louise ten cent trinkets Their intentions were easily traced Yes and everybody knew at times she cried Ah but women like Louise well they get by Yes and everybody thought it kinda sad When they found Louise in her room They'd always put her down below their kind Still some cried when she died this afternoon Louise rode home on the mail train Somewhere to the south I heard her say Too bad it ended so ugly Too bad she had to go this way Ah but the wind is blowing cold tonight Well goodnight Louise goodnight |
Long Long Time written by Gary B. White Universal MCA Music (ASCAP) Love will abide, take things in stride Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side And time washes clean love's wounds unseen That's what someone told me but I don't know what it means. Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time Caught in my fears Blinking back the tears I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near And I never drew one response from you All the while you fell all over girls you never knew Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time Wait for the day You'll go away Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay And life's full of flaws Who knows the cause? Living in the memory of a love that never was Cause I've done everything I know to try and change your mind and I think I'm gonna miss you for a long long time Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time. |
Mental Revenge written by Mel Tillis Well I hope that the friend that you've thrown yourself on Gets drunk and loses her job And every road that you travel on Is dusty rocky and hard I couldn't make you love me You only made me blue So all in all if the curtain should fall Then I hope that it falls on you And I will have sweet Sweet sweet mental revenge I will have sweet Sweet sweet mental revenge Well I hope that the train from Caribou, Maine Runs over your new love affair You'll walk the floor from dawn to dawn And you'll tear out your peroxide hair I never was your woman Cause you were never true So all in all if the curtain should fall Then I hope that it falls on you And I will have sweet Sweet sweet mental revenge I will have sweet Sweet sweet mental revenge I will have sweet Sweet sweet mental revenge I will have sweet Sweet sweet mental revenge |
I'm Leavin' It All Up To You written by D Terry Jr & G Harris I'm leaving it all up, up to you You decide what you're gonna do Now do you want my love Or are we through That's why I'm leaving it up to you You decide what you're gonna do Now do you want my love Or are we through Here's my heart in my hand And I, I don't understand What did I, what have I done wrong You know I worship the ground you walk on That's why I'm leaving it up to you You decide what you're gonna do Now do you want my love Or are we through |
He Dark the Sun written by Bernie Leadon & Gene Clark And with the length of his mind He dark the sun It was not so long ago Maybe just a year or so When I was lonely And when looking for someone Way down south in New Orleans Just a-lookin' for a dream And that's when I found him That's where it all begun He was there on that night Said for you I know I'm right I'll be with you until my race is run He walked into my life With his cold evil eyes And with the length of his mind He dark the sun Well my memory cannot speak And oh Lord I'm feeling weak But I blame it on the fact that I was young Though I know it may sound strange There is no way I can change What my fate has laid out for me now is done He was there on that night Said for you I know I'm right I'll be with you until my race is run He walked into my life With his cold evil eyes And with the length of his mind He dark the sun And with the length of his mind He dark the sun |
Life Is Like a Mountain Railway Traditonal, arranged by Elliot Mazer & Linda Ronstadt Accompanied by the Beechwood Rangers Life is like a mountain railway With an engineer that's brave We must make the run successful From the cradle to the grave Heed the curves and watch the tunnels Never falter, never fail Keep your hands upon the throttle And your eye upon the rail Blessed Saviour there to guide us Till we reach that blissful shore And the angels there to join us In God's grace forevermore As you roll across the trestle Spanning Jordan's swelling tide You will reach the Union Depot Into which your train will ride There you'll meet the superintendent God the father, God the son With a happy joyous greeting Weary pilgrim, welcome home Blessed Saviour there to guide us Till we reach that blissful shore And the angels there to join us In God's grace forevermore In God's grace forevermore |