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Produced by Kevin McNoldy and Robin & Linda Williams Recorded by Kevin McNoldy at Dream Sequence Studios Charlottesville, VA |
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Additional Recording & Mixing by: Bobby Read Bobby Read's Studio North Garden, VA Mixed by Kevin McNoldy Robin & Linda Williams Mastered by David Glasser at Airshow, Springfield, VA |
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Robin Williams: Vocals, acoustic guitar Linda Williams: Vocals, acoustic guitar banjo on track 10 Kevin Maul: Dobro; Lap Steel on track 6; Harmony vocals on track 10 Jim Watson: Electric bass on tracks 9, & 12, harmony vocals Stuart Duncan: Fiddle on tracks 4, 11 & 13 Sammy Shelor: Banjo on tracks 1 & 12; electric guitar on track 5; Kevin Murphy: Drums on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 |
Andy Waldeck: Bass on track 1, 2, 4 - 8 Rose Sinclair: Piano accordian on tracks 2, 7 & 10; Button accordian on tracks 4 & 8; Harmony vocals on track 10 Karl Childres: Bass on track 10 Kevin McNoldy: Electric guitar, acoustic guitar & bass on track 3, harmony vocals & acoustic guitar on track 8; bass & electric guitar on track 13 Tim O'Brien: Mandolin on tracks 1 & 8 fiddle, vocals on track 2 T J Johnson: Mandolin on track 12 Gin Rhubright, T J Johnson, Sammy Shelor, Kevin Mc Noldy: Chorus on track 10 |
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Things I've Learned Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 2) Five Rooms Robin & Linda Williams, Tim O'Brien (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) Howdy Skies/Forerunner Music, Inc., ASCAP) 3) Green Summertime Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 4) Rolling and Rambling (The Death of Hank Williams Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs of Polygram/Brantford Music, BMI) 5) Men with Guns Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 6) The Genius Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 7) I Wonder If I Care As Much Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Don & Phil Everly (Acuff-Rose Publishing, Inc., BMI) |
8) Walking Like A Man Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 9) While I'm Waiting For You Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) lO) Yo, It's Like This, Man Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 11) Falls From The Sky Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 12) At The Crossroads Again Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 13) Letter That I Wrote Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark (Songs for Dixie/Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) |
1) THINGS I LEARNED Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark I can't give you a lot Cause there's lots I ain't got And all the time that has sped Is branded on my brain Simple and plain The things I learned from life as it's led CHORUS: I learned them in the bed room In the barroom And in a hobo's hard luck tale I learned them in the gray gloom Of a back room As the light began to fail I know them in my head The things that I've heard said The things I've learned day to day The lessons of the years The truths and the fears The memories are never far away CHORUS: I learned what I need to hear And when to shut my ear To things that make no sense I learned how to reach And I learned when to speak And how to take the consequence CHORUS: I learned it in the bed room In the barroom And in a hobo's hard luck tale I learned it in the gray gloom Of a back room As the light began to fail 2) FIVE ROOMS Robin & Linda Williams, Tim O'Brien I live in five rooms but they don't feel like home Since our dreams were shattered by two hearts turned to stone Sitting in the living room don't feel like living to me I'm drowning in a flood of memories CHORUS: Five rooms, five rooms Full of hope when love bloomed Now it's empty as a tomb Living in these five rooms I don't use the kitchen it's a wasteland to me A place for dirty dishes and forgotten recipes I don't sleep in the bedroom now I'm all alone The bed's too big and the nights go on too long CHORUS: I stop at the spare room while walking through the night Mourning for the love we both cast aside In the glare of the bathroom mirror's reflection I pray for some faint light of direction CHORUS: 3) GREEN SUMMERTIME Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark Far off in the by-and-by I see a traveler in the sky But my dreams do not take wings For I'm captive to familiar things In this world of mine In the green summertime On a gravel country road By the bed of the old railroad The dust follows turning wheels And blows away across the fields In this world of mine In the green summertime BRIDGE: Though I know them all too well And I have heard all they have to tell My steps will always walk this ground To these old friends I am bound On the streets of my little town The moonlight comes streaming down The dead wait in their graves For the Lord their souls to save In this world of mine In the green summertime BRIDGE: Far off in the by-and-by I see a traveler in the sky But my dreams do not take wings For I'm captive to familiar things In this world of mine In the green summertime 4) ROLLING AND RAMBLING (The Death of Hank Williams) Robin and Linda Williams and Jerome Clark Folks in Nashville slammed the door Said we donŐt want you anymore Find your own way down the road Pack your fiddle and your guitar Take a train or take a car Find someone else to keep you from the cold CHORUS: Rolling and rambling The women loved him half to death He sang with the whiskey on his breath His heart broke like a child Rolling and rambling The sun has set out on the trail The hoboŐs drifted up the rail HeŐs taken his last ride Oh he always sang the blues Like it was all he ever knew He didnŐt sing at all that night He was pale and as he dozed He didnŐt know his time had closed Slumped in the backseat to the right CHORUS: So they sent him on a night train south Through the cities and the rural routes Just on more place to go Oh the whistle sang the bluest note Just like it came from his own throat Moaning sad and crying low CHORUS: 5) MEN WITH GUNS Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark Sam Fielding drove into town He was very tightly wound He brought along a gun In case he had to shoot someone There he met with some men Not one he could call a friend He did not have much to say But they understood any way CHORUS: Men with guns don't have to speak Cause talk is only for the weak And the talkers make the rules And the rules are made for fools Who shake in fear and run At the sight of men with guns Sam Fielding read 'til dawn How he was just a pawn Of Satan's dark dominion And hell's own host is Washington Sam Fielding shook with rage As he put down the page Then he filled up his canteen And he picked up an M-16 CHORUS: They needed cash for the war And the cause they were fighting for A lot of blood would run Because of these men with guns At a bank in the west A teller took one in the chest A deputy died on the road As he was trying to reload CHORUS: Sam's partners did not look back As they roared on down the track Sam crawled alone up the hill Where he lay very still They found him in a shack With a pistol cold and black Blood ran freely when he died From a hole in Sam Fielding's side CHORUS: 6) THE GENIUS Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark He was stoned on some sort of powder He sang his songs and he sang some others Who knows if he knew what they were? But he was a genius for sure It was hard to be his friend He was trouble without end Booze and dope kept his life a blur But he was a genius for sure CHORUS: We come from ordinary lives We believed every word he had to tell us We hung on every line We listened to the wisdom of the genius When he'd stayed too long at the bar Jail was refuge for a fallen star But they always let him out of stir Cause he was a genius for sure Did he battle demons his life long? Or was it their side that he was on? The voices spoke with a slur But he was a genius for sure CHORUS: He died sometime yesterday For his troubled soul let us pray Let us recite the holy words Cause he was a genius for sure CHORUS: 7) THE GENIUS Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark He was stoned on some sort of powder He sang his songs and he sang some others Who knows if he knew what they were? But he was a genius for sure It was hard to be his friend He was trouble without end Booze and dope kept his life a blur But he was a genius for sure CHORUS: We come from ordinary lives We believed every word he had to tell us We hung on every line We listened to the wisdom of the genius When he'd stayed too long at the bar Jail was refuge for a fallen star But they always let him out of stir Cause he was a genius for sure Did he battle demons his life long? Or was it their side that he was on? The voices spoke with a slur But he was a genius for sure CHORUS: He died sometime yesterday For his troubled soul let us pray Let us recite the holy words Cause he was a genius for sure CHORUS: 8) WALKING LIKE A MAN Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark I looked out on the horizon I saw a shadow on the sand There against the setting sun It was Walking Like A Man Out under the moonlight Something I didn't understand There in the desert night It was Walking Like A Man CHORUS: I'm just looking, looking I'm looking for a place to stand As I'm walking, walking Walking Like A Man I looked out across the Great Divide Across the broad expanse A vision came from the other side It was Walking Like A Man I looked out onto the world Through the wind that cuts across the land I watched the dust as it swirled It was Walking Like A Man CHORUS: I looked down into the river From the great Grand Coulee dam The reflection made me shiver It was Walking Like A Man I look into the mirror I reach out to touch it with my hand And there I see it clearer It is Walking Like A Man CHORUS: 9) WAITING FOR YOU Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark I am tired But I cannot sleep My heart's broken But I cannot weep So I roam the streets at night Getting loose as I get tight CHORUS: These are the things I do While I'm waiting for you I am sad But I've got this foolish grin Courtesy of The jukebox and the gin I talk like I'm bound for glory Telling lies and crazy stories CHORUS: BRIDGE: I don't mean to be unkind Honey, you're just wasting my time I'm spending my life dollar to dime Why don't you make up your mind I am high But I'm feeling low My wounds bleed But not so they will show I walk like I ain't fell Like I don't know the road to hell CHORUS: 10) Yo, It's Like This Man (Under Construction) 11) FALLS FROM THE SKY Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark In the stillness before the fall We barely speak one word at all When winter comes its chains to tie Is it tears or the snow that falls from the sky? A gray morning the first day of spring I say, "So long" and not another thing Clouds are rolling in my mind and eye Is it tears or the rain that falls from the sky? BRIDGE: Do I see dark angels in the air? Do I hear the trumpets blare? Is there not a place for me and you In the old world or the new? The storms that rage in our heads Carry us away and leave us for dead We canŐt escape our fate though we try Is it tears or the fire that falls from the sky? And when our world comes crashing down And heaven falls without a sound Is there no whisper, no last sigh? Is it tears or the stars that fall from the sky? 12) At The Crossroads Again Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark Around the hour of midnight He parked his van by the roadside This old man with a heavy load Stepped out onto the old crossroads Once he'd been young and pretty He lived in a shining city He'd had wealth beyond recall Until he lost it all Chorus: I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't Damned if I will, damned if I won't I'm back where I've already been Standing at the crossroads again In a moment frightening There came a crash of lightning A man in a black suit smiled He said, "It's been a long, long while." He offered up a deal The old man listened to his spiel Since he had nothing better He reached down to sign the letter Chorus: With just his first name on the line Down the road he saw the headlights shine By the time the car passed on The man in black was gone What a devil of a dream To beat old Scratch at his own scheme Just what can the devil claim When he's just got half my name Chorus: The old man lay down that evening When he woke up next morning He was handsome and nineteen Sharp as any young man you've ever seen For a time he led a rich man's life A fancy house and a loving wife But it all came crashing down Right on his jeweled crown Chorus: At the stroke of midnight In a flash of bright light The devil and that same old man Are standing by that beat-up van And it happened just the same The old man signed half his name He went to sleep old and poor And woke up rich and young once more This is what I hear tell The devil couldn't take him to hell He got just half his soul So they keep meeting at the old crossroad Chorus: 13) THE LETTER THAT I WROTE Robin & Linda Williams, Jerome Clark I left my home in the late part of the day Heading east before a sinking sun The snow was melting though just barely On the wind-blown and rain-soaked prairie I wondered, would the journey once begun Lead me back or to somewhere far away? CHORUS: I spoke to you in my mind I tried the right words to find Though the words were not for you to hear They were meant but for my ear They were thoughts that came to me out on the road To put down in the letter that I wrote I loved you as I've told you When no one else had kindness to share I gave you all I had to give You were the reason I had to live Still I wonder as I leave in deep despair Were you someone that I never knew CHORUS: When at last I stopped to take my rest I took pen and paper in my hand I began to tell you every heartache Every way I suffered for you sake But the weariness I could not stand I fell sleeping as the sun sank in the west And I dreamed we were pebbles by the sea On a blue world spinning through space In a dark and empty universe Where solitude is the curse And sorrow speaks from every face And the tides wash us to our destiny CHORUS:
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