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Dream Sequence Studios Charlottesville, VA and Coyote Watch Studios Southern Shore, NC Mixed by: Kevin McNoldy and Robin & Linda Williams Mastered by: David Glasser at Airshow Boulder, CO |
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Mary Chapin Carpenter John Jennings Andy Waldeck Tim O'Brien Stuart Duncan Produced & Recorded by: Kevin McNoldy |
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Robin Williams: Vocals, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, harmonica Linda Williams: Vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo Tim O'Brien: Fiddle, mandolin on So It Go, The Perfect Song, and Bar Band in Hillbilly Heaven Stuart Duncan: Fiddle on Sometime Tomorrow and The Hard Country John Jennings: Electric guitar on The Hard Country and Rumble Andy Waldeck: Bass |
Mary Chapin Carpenter: Vocals on Rumble and So Long, See You Tomorrow Kevin McNoldy: Acoustic guitar, baritone Electric guitar electric slide guitar, vocals & bass on Cold, Cold, Heart and In The Company Of Strangers Kevin Maul: Dobro; acoustic slide guitar, pedal steel guitar Jim Watson: Vocals on The Perfect Country Song, So It Go, and Some Peculiar Beast Stuart Gunter: Drums |
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1) The Hard Country Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 2) So It Go Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 3) Rumble Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 4) Sometime Tomorrow Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 5) So Long, See You Tomorrow Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 6) Bar Band In Hillbilly Heaven Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) |
7) Allow It Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 8) This Is The Real Thing Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 9) The Perfect Country Song Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) lO) Some Peculiar Beast Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 11) Cold, Cold Heart Hank Williams (Acuff-Rose, BMI) 12) In The Company Of Strangers Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) |
1) THE HARD COUNTRY
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
It looks like it's going to storm
I got no roof above my head
Nowhere to keep myself warm
I got no blankets, I got no bed.
Walking down the avenue
Counting whatever remains
Standing as a fierce wind blew
LIke a hundred howling trains.
CHORUS:
I'm in the Hard Country
With just the devil for company
Of all the places I could be
I'm in the Hard Country.
Everyone looked just like you
But they wore a stranger's face
Their hunger all too in view
Angels fallen from grace.
Once I thought I knew this place
I held my head up high
But now I am a rambling case
Slipping through on the sly
CHORUS.
Let the wind roll me like a train
Rocking my anxious soul
Across the mountain and the plain
Confusion, be consoled.
Carry me from all strife
To none of this no more
To that long-promised sweet old life
On God's great, golden shore.
CHORUS.
2) So It Go
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
So tired I can barely speak
Feeling lowdown and weak
I know I should act my age
I am no young fool at this stage.
Once I thought "Sure I could"
But now I know I never would
Hey this is how it's supposed to be
So it go silly me.
Chorus:
Hey ho, so it go
Hey ho, so it be
Hey ho, so it go
Hey ho ho so it go
Silly me
I guess I'm drawn to the view
Down at the VFW
Pardon my dumb toothy grin
Mister, your skin's too thin
Ain't no use to take a swing
Nothing I say means a thing
Forgive me everything I say
I just walk on feet of clay
Chorus.
So tired I can barely speak
Feeling lowdown and weak
No choice but to act my age
I am an old fool at this stage
Gonna walk home in the dark
Gonna ignore that black dog's bark
He's says "It soon will be your turn"
Hell, I just got ashes to burn.
Chorus.
3) Rumble
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
Pour me the truth
Pour it to me straight
Fill it to the top
Though the hour is late
Drown me in words
I donÕt need the air
I breathe too much already
I ainÕt going nowhere
CHORUS:
I think I hear a rumbling sound
A roaring in the moonlight beam
Could be an eighteen wheeler loaded down
Could be an echo from some old dream
Tell me a joke
I ainÕt heard before
I have one laugh left
Maybe three or four
Turn the music up
Let it fill the room
Nail me to the floor
Cast out the gloom
CHORUS:
Shut out the rumble
That shakes my soul
That drowns out his voice
And speaks the truth untold
Tell him if he asks
IÕm doing all right
I wished him all the best
And walked into the night
4) Sometime Tomorrow
Robin and Linda Williams and Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
I'll get over her sometime tomorrow
In the meantime please let me pass by
Pardon me if I move a little slow
Please ignore my plaintive sigh
In memory it was but yesterday
On an evening in the moon bright
That I let myself go astray
In the cause of love's delight
CHORUS:
I believe I will go upriver
I will seek no earthly prize
I am no part of anything
I will wear the clothes of a traveler
I will not meet your eyes
I am the last toll the night bells ring
I'll get over her sometime tomorrow
As the heavens pour down roses
And her scent is in the wind that blows
And the evening a song composes
I will sing that song until tomorrow
Til the dawn awakens me
And I rise to shake off the shadow
This new old world for to see
CHORUS:
5) Allowed
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
I carry on with my friends
Until IÕm the only one
Until IÕm backwards bent
And blinking at the sun
I lock the keys in the car
It's 10 degrees below
Smash the windshield with a crowbar
And let in four feet of snow
CHORUS:
Honey youÕve just got to allow it
Cause I canÕt help the way I am
Honey youÕve just got to allow it
I love you more than I can stand
I ask your opinion
When I come home from the store
Just tell me the truth
And I will not get sore
How do you like my orange and pink
Bikini bathing suit
And when you tell me what you think
ThatÕs when I hit the roof
CHORUS:
If we get lost out on a drive
I wonÕt ask directions
I know it nearly drives you wild
But I canÕt stand perfection
ThereÕs no one way to get somewhere
So I just trust my nose
I send it up into the air
And follow where it goes
CHORUS:
I hold court in my kitchen
And tell you what to do
You donÕt want to listen
Though I know whatÕs best for you
AinÕt no use to argue with me
YouÕre just wasting time
And don't you bother to agree
ŌCause I just changed my mind
CHORUS:
You know that you hold the key
And IÕm your honey bun
DonÕt go lock the door on me
Cause IÕm just having fun
When I trip over my feet
You catch me when I fall
Honey, I ainÕt nothing
Without my all in all
CHORUS:
6) Bar Band in Hillbilly Heaven
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
HeÕd been playing way too long
In a hundred blood bucket dives
He sang a thousand hillbilly songs
For drunk husbands and cheating wives
Living at a killing pace
As many lines on his face
As the backroad blacktops heÕs rolled down
Heading at last for that last go round
CHORUS:
ThereÕs a bar band in hillbilly heaven
Ō Fiddle, steel, drums and mandolin
Way out there among the stars
He dreams he picking lead guitar
For Hank and Lefty and every honkytonk hero
Who ever had a broken heart and a six pack to go
He grumbled and he cursed
As he counted thirteen bucks in tips
ŅDonÕt see how things can get much worse
I canÕt take much more of thisÓ
He threw the case in the front
Hit the highway on the run
With his amp and guitar in the back
He broke into the first six pack
CHORUS:
All at once he saw a curve
As he wrenched the wheel and swerved
He had time for one final thought
ŅLord, grant the dream that canÕt be boughtÓ
CHORUS:
7) Allowed It
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
I carry on with my friends
Until IÕm the only one
Until IÕm backwards bent
And blinking at the sun
I lock the keys in the car
It's 10 degrees below
Smash the windshield with a crowbar
And let in four feet of snow
CHORUS:
Honey youÕve just got to allow it
Cause I canÕt help the way I am
Honey youÕve just got to allow it
I love you more than I can stand
I ask your opinion
When I come home from the store
Just tell me the truth
And I will not get sore
How do you like my orange and pink
Bikini bathing suit
And when you tell me what you think
ThatÕs when I hit the roof
CHORUS:
If we get lost out on a drive
I wonÕt ask directions
I know it nearly drives you wild
But I canÕt stand perfection
ThereÕs no one way to get somewhere
So I just trust my nose
I send it up into the air
And follow where it goes
CHORUS:
I hold court in my kitchen
And tell you what to do
You donÕt want to listen
Though I know whatÕs best for you
AinÕt no use to argue with me
YouÕre just wasting time
And don't you bother to agree
ŌCause I just changed my mind
CHORUS:
You know that you hold the key
And IÕm your honey bun
DonÕt go lock the door on me
Cause IÕm just having fun
When I trip over my feet
You catch me when I fall
Honey, I ainÕt nothing
Without my all in all
CHORUS:
8) This is the Real Thing
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
I woke up this morning feeling hurt
In a bed of broken words
No need to speak them aloud
They lay in pieces all around
I got on a bus to somewhere
I didnÕt ask I just paid my fare
Someone was speaking words to me
But they were just a mystery
CHORUS:
I hear a voice singing
The ballads of leaving
The deep blues of grieving
There is only this one thing
This is The Real Thing
I am no one youÕd ever know
IÕm just a name wherever I go
I've got no heart but my soul is real
It is just a broke-down deal
CHORUS:
Woke up this morning in this prison cell
Another motherÕs child that fell
Bound by sorrow, by memory freed
Memory that wonÕt let me be
CHORUS:
9) The Perfect Country Song
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
They don't make 'em like they used to
They're just nothin' from nothin'
They're way too slick to be true
And nothin' from nothin' ain't somethin'.
But me I'm just a rough old cob
I don't wear a cowboy hat
I sure ain't no heart throb
In my beat up old baseball cap.
Chorus:
Once a long time ago
I was on every jukebox
You'd hear about me on the radio
I was hard as nails and dumb as an ox
Everything I done I done it wrong
Yeah, I was the Perfect Country Song.
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
Down on the factory floor
I saw the light in a honkytonk's glow
I had a beer and a couple more.
I got my heart all busted up
I got the same done to my jaw
I loved them angels all made up
And fought them rounders to a draw.
Chorus.
I'd get all crazy in love
Until I walked down the aisle
It wouldn't be long before I'd had enough
And I'd go out cheatin' style.
Once she'd taken all she could take
She'd leave me just like that
I'd say "Darlin' don't make me shake
And howl like an alley cat."
Chorus.
Where's the honkytonk tale
In them nothin' Nashville tunes?
They ain't nothin' except for sale
They ain't nothin' but a rich man's croons.
They don't make 'em like they used to
They're just nothin' from nothin'
They're way too slick to be true
And nothin' from nothin' ain't somethin'.
Chorus.
10) Some Peculiar Beast
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
He rode out at dawn
With a six-shooter on his belt
He said "I've got to get gone"
And stole out fast as hell
They tried to run him down
But he was on the great strong bay
Astride the grassland flat and brown
In the twilight he got away
CHORUS;
There was no explanation
Why he'd sent another to damnation
Something won't ever give him ease
Some dark evil thing, Some peculiar beast
The Pinkerton men swore
Mid gunfire like lightning and thunder
"We'll cut him down, he'll rise no more"
To the bay he put the spur ("We'll kill him, we'll put him under")
They emptied their shotguns
The dust was so thick you could choke
Then with their Colts they begun
But he was gone with the smoke
CHORUS:
He was cruel beyond measure
Many a posse pounded his trail
As he took blood like a treasure
The law could not prevail
He murdered his last man
On the plains of New Mexico
Then he headed out to the sand
Flying like a wild crow
CHORUS:
By the tracks of the bay
They found the prints of no earthly hound
Embedded deep in the clay
Where the beast had taken him down
There was blood on the track
To the place he has gone to dwell
The blood led them all the way back
To the cave entrance to hell
CHORUS:
11) Cold, Cold Heart
Hank Williams (Acuff-Rose, BMI)
12) In The Company Of Strangers
Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark
(Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co. BMI)
I am driving straight on through the night
I am driving straight on through the night
I'm just trying to make it to daylight
I am driving straight on through the night
Southward the sharp winds cry
Southward the sharp winds cry
To the rain and the deep black sky
Southward the sharp winds cry
CHORUS:
Oh you wild and rolling rivers
Roaring as the warm air quivvers
You highways full of dreams and danger
Keeping me in the company of strangers
Keeping me in the company of strangers
When the soothing darkness falls
When the soothing darkness falls
Will the bright light of memory pall
When the soothing darkness falls
Is there rest for a restless man
Is there rest for a restless man
Is there sleep by the salt sea sand
Is there rest for a restless man
CHORUS:
BRIDGE:
Take these scenes from my eyes
Stop these voices whispering goodbye
CHORUS:
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