Charley Pride

[Torrent Maniak]

In The Middle Of Nowhere

In The Middle Of Nowhere

They had meant for me one last time to see my hometown again
Once again go there see the places where as a child I've been
As I journeyed now it was so far out it was almost in
In the middle in the middle of nowhere
Sadness talked with me as I walked the streets of my memory
Streets that seemed somehow so much smaller now than they used to be
Talked of other days when this tiny place had been home to me
In the middle in the middle of nowhere
People stared at me in silence as I walked around
Time had passed till I was just a stranger there

Folks had changed so much that no one even knew me now
In the middle in the middle of nowhere
I went once again to the schoolyard where I used to play
Passed the church of mom and daddy where they used to pray
Down the dusty road to the churchyard where they both now lay
In the middle in the middle of nowhere
As I placed my blue forgetmenots there on the ground
One last time I knelt by mom and dad in prayer
Then I said goodbye forever to that little town in the middle in the middle of nowhere

 

[Torrent Maniak]

Instant Loneliness

Instant Loneliness

I watch it's three a.m. I know she's waitin' up again
On the road I'm wonderin' what I'm gonna say
Funny how the light's not turnin' maybe this time she'll be sleepin'
In the drive I'm wonderin' if she's okay
The house looks dark to me as I fumble for the key
Now inside an empty chair is all I see
In the kitchen on the table there's a letter and Lord I'm shakin'
Cause she's cried and wrote she's tired of waitin' for me
Instant loneliness all around me certainly my whole world has slipped away
Instant loneliness where she should be and this instant loneliness is hurtin' me
[ fiddle ]
She once said to me that she'd grow tired some day
This empty house echoes the words she used to say
In the hallway there's a toy and a picture of the baby
A reminder of how much she took away
Instant loneliness all around me...
Yes this instant loneliness is hurtin' me

 

[Torrent Maniak]

Is Anybody Going To San Antone

Is Anybody Going To San Antone

Rain dripping off the brim of my hat
Is sure is cold today
An' here I am walking down Sixty Six
Wish she hadn't done me that way

Sleeping under a table in a roadside park
A man could wake up dead
But it sure seems warmer than it did
Sleeping in our king sized bed

Is anybody going to San Antone
Or Phoenix, Arizona
Any place is all right as long as I
Can forget I've ever known here

Wind whipping down the neck of my shirt
Like I ain't got nothing on
But I'd rather fight the wind and rain
Than what I've been fighting at home

Yonder comes a truck with the U.S. Mail
People writing letters back home
Tomorrow she'll probably want me back
But I'll be just as gone

Is anybody going to San Antone
Or Phoenix, Arizona
Any place is all right as long as I
Can forget I've ever known here
Any place is all right as long as I
Can forget I've ever known her

 

[Torrent Maniak]

It Amazes Me

It Amazes Me

Anytime the world is gettin' to me all I have to do is think of you
And I know the world cannot undo me I feel so easy loving you
It amazes me at all I seem to be is me loving you and you loving me
It amazes me the rhythm and the rhyme two loving hearts in sweet loving times

Mhm sweet loving times

I never find the words to tell you somehow they're always hard to say
But I hope you feel it when I hold you my love is growing everyday
It amazes me at all...

 

[Torrent Maniak]

It's All Right

It's All Right

Couldn't tell my teacher my last name when I was in grade school
Stuttered when I talked and everybody laughed at me
I was a boy from across the tracks
I wore hand-me-downs on my back
But I swore that I'd never let the bitters get the best of me
Fell in love with a pretty little girl when I was older
And like a fool, I figured there was something I could make of me
But it wasn't in the cards 'cause her daddy was rich
And it was commonly plain to see
No matter what I did she would never take a likin' to me
But it's all right, it's all right
I come up the hard way and fought a good fight
And it's all right with me
It's all right, it's all right
I come up the hard way and fought a good fight
And it's all right with me
If I'm lucky I still got a few more years of livin'
And lady luck's never been a real good friend to me
I never asked a favour of a man in my life
But the preacher I'm gonna see
And tell him when I die say these words over me
Here lies a man who never asked the world for nothin'
He laboured in the sun and slept in the shade of a tree
His hands was calloused but his heart was warm
For his mind was pure and free
The good Lord knows that's the way a man's got to be
It's all right, it's all right
I come up the hard way and fought a good fight
And it's all right with me
But it's all right, it's all right
I come up the hard way and fought a good fight
And it's all right with me
It's all right, it's all right

 

[Torrent Maniak]

It's Gonna Take A Little Bit Longer

It's Gonna Take A Little Bit Longer

Baby, it's gonna take a little bit longer
For me to ever get you off of my mind
Baby, it's gonna take a little bit longer
'Cause I've been lovin' you a long long time

People try to tell me that it won't be long
Till I won't even miss you anymore
But I can tell them it must be something mighty wrong
'Cause every day I want you even more

And baby, it's gonna take a little bit longer
For me to ever get you off of my mind
Baby, it's gonna take a little bit longer
'Cause I've been lovin' you a long long time

They say this lonely feeling that it'll go away
But after all this time now it ain't gone
Every weaken moment and every night and day
Just seems to keep on keeping on

And baby, it's gonna take a little bit longer
For me to ever get you off of my mind
Baby, it's gonna take a little bit longer
'Cause I've been lovin' you a long long time
Yes, I've been lovin' you a long long time

 

[Torrent Maniak]

It's The Little Things

It's The Little Things

The way you fix my tie in the morning
And always brush my coat before I go
The hurried kiss I get from you when I'm leaving
It's the little things that make me love you so

The way you take my arm when we go walking
Way you hold my hand when we're at a show
The way your eyes say more than you when we're talking
It's the little things that make me love you so


Those little things you do that make me love you
They're all I need to make my dreams come true
And you know what tears me all to pieces
Is the way you tell me that you love me too

The way you know just how I like my coffee
And how you chase away my every care
And the way you go around turning lights down low
It's the little things that make me love you so
It's the little things that make me love you so

 

[Torrent Maniak]

Jeannie Norman

Jeannie Norman

It's been ten long and lonely years since I've been to my hometown
I saw fame and fortune which I finally found
Everyone at home may know me and they say that I'm a big man
A hometown boy that made good and he's back home again
But there's a face in my mem'ry that's stands out from all the rest
A face of someone special the girl I still love best
Well I asked my mom about Jeannie she said she married yesterday
Please don't try to see her son it had to be this way
Then my eyes fill with tears as I turn back the years
To a love I once had when she was mine
Jeannie Norman was her name and I'd give up all my fame
Just to hold Jeannie close one more time
Then my eyes fill with tears...
Just to hold Jeannie close one more time

 

[Torrent Maniak]

Just A Girl I Used To Know

Just A Girl I Used To Know

There's a picture that I carry one we made some time ago
If they ask who's in the picture with me I say just a girl I used to know
Just a girl I used to go around with just a friend from long ago
I don't tell them how lost I am without her I say she's just a girl I used to know
[ steel ]
I say she's just another girl now just a flame that's lost its glow

And I say her name has slipped my mind now and she's just a girl I used to know
Just a girl I used to spend some time with just a friend from long ago
I don't talk about the nights I cried about her I say she's just a girl I used to know
Just a girl I used to know

 

[Torrent Maniak]

Just Between You And Me

Just Between You And Me

So I feel so blue sometimes I wanna die
And so I've got a broken heart so what
They say that time will heal all wounds in mice and men
And I know that someday, I'll forget and love again

But just between you and me
I've got my doubts about it
But just between you and me
You're too much to forget

So I've lost the only girl I ever loved
And so I've never felt so low so what
I'll just tell myself each time I wanna cry
That someday time will dry the teardrops from my eyes

But just between you and me
I'm not so sure about it
But just between you and me
You're too much to forget
You're too much to forget