Tanya Tucker

[fox69]

Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather


Sometimes you can be like a stranger
In moments when you're so far away
In the night when I reach out to hold you
You just turn away, why do you turn away?

Oh, I love you so when you're smiling
But your smile has faded overnight
Well, we stay like this for a lifetime
Gettin' nothing right, oh baby, gettin' nothing right

Why do we always have stormy weather?
Why should we have it so rough?
Is it so hard just to stay close together?
Why can't we ever have love?

Oh, I knew from the first time I saw you
I just had to make you mine
I felt so sad when you told me
About your troubled life, all about your troubled life

So here we are just a few years further
We're still tryin' to make it work
Now I've a feeling what you really need, boy
Is just a little love, oh baby, just a little love

Why do we always have stormy weather?
Why should we have it so rough?
Is it so hard just to stay close together?
Why can't we ever have love?

Why do we always have stormy weather?
Why should we have it so rough?
Is it so hard just to stay close together?
Why can't we ever have love?

 

[fox69]

Strong Enough To Bend

Strong Enough To Bend


There's a tree out in the back yard,
That never has been broken by the wind.
And the reason it's still standin'
It was strong enough to bend.

For years we have stayed together,
As lovers and as friends.
What we have will last forever
If we're strong enough to bend.

When you say somethin' that you can't take back,
A big wind blows and you hear a crack.
When you say "Hey, well, I might be wrong,"
You can sway with the wind till the storm is gone.
(Sway with the wind till the storm is gone.)

Like a tree
(Like a tree)
Out in the back yard,
That never has been broken by the wind.
Our love
(Our love)
Will last forever,
If we're strong enough to bend.

When you start thinkin' that you know it all,
A big wind blows and a branch will fall.
When you say "Hey, this job takes two,"
We can sway with the wind till the skies turn blue.
(Sway with the wind till the skies turn blue.)

Like the tree
(Like the tree)
Out in the back yard,
That never has been broken by the wind.
Our love
(Our love)
will last forever,
If we're strong enough to bend.
Our love
(Our love)
will last forever,
If we're strong enough to bend.

 

[fox69]

Teach Me The Words To Your Song

Teach Me The Words To Your Song


I hope it's all that I'd found
This may be my last time around
I tried so long but it's always gone wrong
'Cause I don't know the words to your song

Teach me the words to your song
Teach me and I'll sing along
I don't care anymore if it's right or it's wrong
Just teach me the words to your song

I've been hurt time after time
I've laid my heart on the line
I want to stay while the feelin's so strong
So teach me the words to your song

Teach me the words to your song
Teach me and I'll sing along
I don't care anymore if it's right or it's wrong
Just teach me the words to your song
Just teach me the words to your song

 

[fox69]

Teddy Bear Song

Teddy Bear Song


I wish I had button eyes and red felt nose
Shaggy cotton skin and just one set of clothes
Sittin' on the shelf in the local department store
With no dreams to dream and nothing to be sorry for
I wish I was a Teddy Bear not livin' nor lovin' or goin' nowhere
I wish I was a Teddy Bear and I'm wishin' that I hadn't
fallen in love with you
I wish I had a wooden heart and a sawdust mind
Then your memory wouldn't come around hurtin' all the time
I'd have a sewed on smile and a painted twinkle in my eye
And I never would've ever had to learn how to cry
I wish I was a Teddy Bear
I wish I had a string you'd pull to make me say hi
I'm Teddy ain't it a lovely day
Then I'd know everytime I spoke the words were right
And no one would know the mess I made in my life
I wish I was a Teddy Bear
And I'm wishin' I hadn't fallen in love with you

 

[fox69]

Tell Me About It

Tell Me About It


They say that there's a hole in the atmosphere
The things you think will last just disappear
When you were ready to say I do
Somebody lowered the boom on you
Now you need a sympathetic ear

So Baby. . .

Chorus:

Tell me about it
Tell me about teardrops in the dark
Tell me about it
Tell me all about your broken heart

You say you need someone to hold you tight
Ya can't stand another lonely night
Well come closer and
Tell me about it

Love isn't always true it hurts sometimes
Your tears will tell on you girl, I'm not blind
I know what you're goin' through
I graduated from that school too
If you need a shoulder cry on mine

Tell me about it
Tell me about teardrops in the dark
Tell me about it
Tell me all about your broken heart

You say you need someone to hold you tight
Ya can't stand another lonely night
Well come closer and
Tell me about it

You took a lesson in playin' a fool
I graduated from that school too
If you need a shoulder cry on mine

Tell me about it
Tell me about teardrops in the dark
Tell me about it
Tell me all about your broken heart

You say you need someone to hold you tight
Ya can't stand another lonely night
Well come closer and
Tell me about it

Repeat to fade

 

[fox69]

Tennessee Woman

Tennessee Woman


Lay me down on porch at midnight
Get me high on the southern moonlight
Walk me down by the river star bright
Hold me, my friend, I'm home again

I'm a Tennessee woman
Who's been away from home
I know I don't belong in that city world
Old Smoky Mountains, do you remember me
I'm from Tennessee, I'm just a local girl

Make my bed where the sun can wake me
From my dreams of childhood take me
Where the winds of time can't shake me
Help me unload this weight of the road

I'm a Tennessee woman
I'm a Tennessee woman

 

[fox69]

Texas When I Die

Texas When I Die


When I die I may not go to heaven
I don't know if they let cowboys in
If they don't just let me go to Texas, Boy!
Texas is as close as I've been.

New York couldn't hold my attention
Detroit City couldn't sing my song
If tomorrow finds me busted flat in Dallas
I won't care, 'cause at least I'll know I'm home.

When I die I may not go to heaven
I don't know if they let cowboys in
If they don't just let me go to Texas, Boy!
Texas is as close as I've been.

I'd ride through all of Hell and half of Texas
Just to hear Willie Nelson sing a country song
Beer just ain't as cold in old Milwaukee
My body's here, but my soul's in San Antone.

When I die I may not go to heaven
I don't know if they let cowboys in
If they don't just let me go to Texas, Boy!
Texas is as close as I've been.

When I die I may not go to heaven
I don't know if they let cowboys in
If they don't just let me go to Texas, Boy!
Texas is as close as I've been.

 

[fox69]

The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A

The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A


Shine on me sunshine
Walk with me world
It's a skippidity-do-da day
I'm the happiest girl, in the whole U.S.A.

Good morning morning
Hello sunshine
Wake up sleepy head
Why'd we move that bojangle clock
so far away from the bed

Just one more minute
That's why we moved it
One more hug or two
Do you love waking up next to me
As much as I love waking up next to you

You make the coffee
I'll make the bed
I'll fix your lunch
if you'll fix mine

Now tell me the truth
Do these old shoes look funny
Honey
it's almost nine

Now you be careful
Gotta go I love you
Have a beautiful day,
And kiss the happiest girl, In the whole U.S.A.

Bridge:
Skippidity-do-da
Thank you oh Lord
for making him for me
And thank you for letting life turn out the way

That I always thought it could be
There once was a time when I could not imagine
How it would feel to say
I'm happiest girl, in the whole U.S.A

Chorus:
Now shine on me sunshine
Walk with me world
It's a skippidity-do-da day
I'm the happiest girl, in the whole U.S.A.

Repeat Chorus 2x (to fade)

 

[fox69]

The Jamestown Ferry

The Jamestown Ferry


He just caught the Jamestown Ferry
It's not a hot day in January
Like he said it'd be
If he ever left me
A case of gone was all he carried
As he got on the Jamestown Ferry
He said that gone was all he'd ever be

I didn't think that he'd leave me
After saying how much he needs me
But the fact still remains
I'm sittin' here all alone
Missin' the lovin' of my baby
Lord it's about to drive me crazy
He was the sweetest peice of heaven I've ever known

He just caught the Jamestown Ferry
It's not a hot day in January
Like he said it'd be
If he ever left me
A case of gone was all he carried
As he got on the Jamestown Ferry
He said that gone was all he'd ever be

As I walk through his kingdom
Of honkey-tonks and bars
I remember how he'd hold me
And comfort me with talk
He didn't cuss with every breath
He had a soothing southern drawl
Made me feel like a lady through it all

He just caught the Jamestown Ferry
It's not a hot day in January
Like he said it'd be
If he ever left me
A case of gone was all he carried
As he got on the Jamestown Ferry
He said that gone was all he'd ever be
He just caught the Jamestown Ferry

It's not a hot day in January
Like he said it'd be
If he ever left me

 

[fox69]

The Man That Turned My Mama On

The Man That Turned My Mama On


I wish I'd known the man a little better
that turned my mama on
he must have been a heck of a man
'cause mama was a lady don't you know

Mama was no prude but she was proper
never wore her dress too short
she didn't care if you did
but she'd have never taken a drink
Grandma Kate did the best she could
To see mama grew up right
so she'd be fittin' one day for courtin'
and to wear some gentleman's ring

Chorus:
I wish I'd known the man a little better
that turned my mama on
he was always laughing
and singing the right sweet song
I wish I'd known the man a little better
the turned my mama on
He must have been a heck of a man
'Cause mama was a lady don't you know

I hear he came to town one day
in a rusty old '49 Ford
selling lady's shoes and assorted greeting cards
he was killing good looking
and easy to like
and turning all the ladies' heads
but he saw mama first
and Lord knows how some of them travelin men are

Chorus

Mama seemed to forget the things
that Grandma Kate had always told her
she ran away one night with a traveling man
they bought gas at Rita's truck stop
and drove to Dasota County
but he brought her home with a ring upon her hand
mama's told me how the fever took him
when I was barely 5
but I remember him pitchin' me up
and catchin' me
and I love to sit and listen to her
tell me about my daddy
she says he thought the sun would surely
rise and set in me

I wish I'd known the man a little better
that turned my mama on
he must have been a heck of a man
'cause mama was a lady don't you know
I wish I'd known the man a little better
the turned my mama on
He must have been a heck of a man
'Cause mama was a lady don't you know