Everly Brothers

[fox69]

OH, SO MANY YEARS

OH, SO MANY YEARS


All these many years I've loved you
No one has ever known
No one has ever known but you alone
I've kept it locked inside my heart
And smiled through all my tears
My darling, I have loved you, oh, so many years
Each night within my lonely room
I cry dear, over you
And pray to God that things will turn out right
But when the dawn of day appears
I brush away my tears
My darling, I have loved you, oh, so many years
I'll go on pretending that my life is, oh, so gay
And happy dear without you by my side
When all the time my heart is
Longing just to have you near
My darling, I have loved you, oh, so many years
Maybe faith will leave us down a path where we will meet again
And then we will be free to love anew
Then once we kiss from your dear lips
Will banish all my fears

 

[fox69]

OH, WHAT A FEELING

OH, WHAT A FEELING


It must be love
Oh, what a feeling

I sit at home alone
I wait here by the ‘phone
I know you'll never call
Oh, what a feeling

It must be love
Although it's bitter
It must be love
I can't forget her

The days turn into weeks
Your letters I shall keep
The ones you didn't write
Oh, what a feeling

It must be love
Oh, what a feeling
It must be love

 

[fox69]

OMAHA

OMAHA


It's hard to remember Pittsburgh properly
It's hard to recall what I did in D.C.
No vivid remembrance of things in L.A.
The times and the places have all slipped away

In one too brief minute
My min saw it all
The time and the place
Twelve o'clock noon

Omaha, Omaha
It seems that I found everything that I wanted
All in Omaha
Everything's there my love and my laughter
It's all in Omaha

I'm going back to Omaha
My Omaha
I'm going back to Omaha
Oh, my Omaha

The rest of the world doesn't matter
When you find what you're after

Bells and candles, clocks that chime
Ribbons glass, light that shine
Colored paper, shiny beads

 

[fox69]

ON THE WINGS OF A NIGHTINGALE

ON THE WINGS OF A NIGHTINGALE


When I love, I get a feeling
Like I'm traveling through the sky
On the wings of a nightingale

As I ride my head is reeling
But I don't even wonder why
On the wings of a nightingale, I fly

High above, land and sea
I'll be thinking of you and me
Couldn't ask for a better place to be

Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening to me

So hold my hand
I've got a feeling that the journey has just begun
On the wings of a nightingale

And if you like, we'll fly together
To the land of eternal sun
On the wings of a nightingale of love

High above, land and sea
I'll be thinking of you and me
Couldn't ask for a better place to be

Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening to me

When I love, I get a feeling
Like I'm traveling through the sky
On the wings of a nightingale

On the wings of a nightingale
On the wings of a nightingale
On the wings of a nightingale

 

[fox69]

ONLY ME

ONLY ME


Where is that part of me
That keeps me from the precious things I feel
Where is the heart of me
Who am I
Where are those special wings
Oh that fly me to the world that's in your eyes
I see it waiting there
Where am I
Where are those open doors
That let me in and never lose the key
Oh that's where I should be
Next to you
Where is that dream of me
That used to seem so wonderful oh and real
Oh that's what I should be
Only me

 

[fox69]

PARADISE

PARADISE


When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backward old town that I often remember
So many times that my memories are worn.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all our land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay...

 

[fox69]

PEOPLE GET READY

PEOPLE GET READY


People get ready
There's a train a-coming
You don't need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is some faith
To hear the diesel humming
Don't need a ticket
You just thank the Lord

There ain't no room
For the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind
Just to save his own
Have pity on those
Whose chance is growin' thinner
There's no hiding place
Against the Kingdom's throne

People get ready
There's a train a-coming
You don't need a ticket
You just thank the Lord

(Alt.:
People get ready
For the train to Jordan
Picking up passengers
From coast to coast
Faith is the key
Open the doors and board them
There's room for all
Among the loved and lost)

 

[fox69]

PLEASE HELP ME I'M FALLING

PLEASE HELP ME I'M FALLING


Please help me I'm falling in love with you
Close the door to temptation don't let me walk thru
For I should't want you
But darling I do
Please help me I'm falling in love with you
Please help me falling and that would be sin
Close the door to temptation don't let me walk in
Turn away from me darling
I'm begging you true
Please help me I'm falling in love with you

 

[fox69]

POEMS PRAYERS AND PROMISES

POEMS PRAYERS AND PROMISES


I've been lately thinking
About my life's time
All the things I've done
And how it's been
And I can't help believing
In my own mind
I know I'm gonna hate to see it end

I've seen a lot of sunshine
Slept out in the rain
Spent a night or two all on my own
I've known my lady's pleasures
Had myself some friends
Spent a time or two in my own home

I have to say it now
It's been a good life all in all
It's really fine
To have a chance to hang around
Lie there by the fire
Watch the evening tire
While all my friends and my old lady
Sit and pass the pipe around

And talk of poems and prayers and promises
And things that we believe in
How sweet it is to love someone
How right it is to care
How long it's been since yesterday
What about tomorrow
And what about our dreams
And all the memories we share

The days they pass so quickly now
Nights are seldom long
Time around me whispers when it's cold
Changes somehow frighten me
Still I have to smile
It turns me on to think of growing old
For though my life's been good to me
There's still so much to do
So many things my mind has never known
I'd like to raise a family
I'd like to sail away
And dance across the mountains on the moon

I have to say it now
It's been a good life all in all
It's really fine
To have a chance to hang around
Lie there by the fire
And watch the evening tire
While all my friends and my old lady
Sit and pass the pipe around

And talk of poems and prayers and promises
And things that we believe in
How sweet it is to love someone
How right it is to care
How long it's been since yesterday
What about tomorrow
And what about our dreams

 

[fox69]

POOR JENNY

POOR JENNY


I took my little Jenny to a party last night
At ten o'clock it ended in a heckuva fight
When someone hit my Jenny she went out like a light
Poor Jenny

And then some joker went and called the cops on the phone
So everybody scattered out for places unknown
I couldn't carry Jenny so I left her alone
Poor Jenny

Well Jenny had her picture in the paper this mornin'
She made it with a bang
Accordin' to the story in the paper this mornin'
Jenny is the leader of a teenage gang

Jenny has a brother and he's hot on my trail
Her daddy wants to ride me out of town on a rail
I hope I'll be around when Jenny gets out of jail
Poor Jenny

I went downtown to see her, she was locked in a cell
She wasn't very glad to see me, that I could tell
In fact, to tell the truth, she wasn't lookin' too well
Poor Jenny

Her eye was black, her face was red, her hair was a fright
She looked as though she'd been a'cryin' half of the night
I told her I was sorry, she said "Get out of sight"
Poor Jenny

It seems a shame that Jenny had to go get apprehended, a heckuva fate
This party was the first one she ever had attended
It had to happen on our very first date

Jenny has a brother and he's hot on my trail
Her daddy wants to ride me out of town on a rail
I hope I'll be around when Jenny gets out of jail
Poor Jenny