Shutters And Boards lyrics - Charley Pride

Shutters and boards cover the windows of the house where we used to live

All I have left is a heart full of sorrow since she said she'd never forgive

The house that we've built was once filled with laughter

But I changed that laughter to tears

Now I live in a world without sunshine oh I wish you were here

Shutters and boards...

Last night I dreamed that you came to our house to take an old book from the shelf

If you'll open the shutters I'll tear down the boards

Cause I drove every nail by myself

Shutters and boards...

(One more time) Shutters and boards...

Six Days On The Road lyrics - Charley Pride

(originally by Dave Dudley)

Well I pulled outta Pittsburgh a rollin' down that Eastern Sea board

I got my diesel wound up and she's a runnin' like a never before

There's a speed zone ahead alright well I don't see a cop in sight

Six days on the road and I'm a gonna make it home tonight

I got me ten forward gears and my George overdrive

I'm takin' little white pills and my eyes are open wide

I just passed a Jimmy in white been passin' everything in sight

Six days on the road I said I'm a gonna make it home tonight

Well it seems like a month since I kissed my baby goodbye

I could have a lotta women but I'm not like that sort of a guy

I could find one to hold me tight but I could never make believe it's alright

Six days on the road I said I'm a gonna make it home tonight

Well the ICC is a checkin' on down the line

Well I'm a little overweight and my log book's way behind

Cause there's nothin' bothers me tonight I can dodge all the scales alright

Six days on the road I said I'm a gonna make it home tonight

Well my rig's a little old but that don't mean she's slow

There's a flame from my stack and that smoke's blowin' black as coal

Oh well my hometown's a comin' in sight if you think I'm a happy you're right

Six days on the road I said I'm a gonna make it home tonight

Six days on the road I said I'm a gonna make it home tonight

Six days on the road I said I'm a gonna make it home tonight

Cotton Fields lyrics - Charley Pride

(originally by Lead Belly)

When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle

In them old cottonfields back home

When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle

In them old cottonfields back home

Well when of them cotton bolls get rotten you can't pick very much cotton

In them old cottonfields back home

Yes it was down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana

In them old cottonfields back home

When I was a little bitty baby...

Yes again in them old cottonfields back home

Well in them old I said cottonfields back home

"Songs Of Pride...Charley That Is" (1968)

• Someday You Will lyrics - Charley Pride
• She Made Me Go lyrics - Charley Pride
• Right To Do Wrong lyrics - Charley Pride
• Easy Part's Over lyrics - Charley Pride
• Day You Stop Loving Me lyrics - Charley Pride
• I Could Have Saved You The Time lyrics - Charley Pride
• One Of These Days lyrics - Charley Pride
• All The Time lyrics - Charley Pride
• Let Me Help You Work It Out lyrics - Charley Pride
• Both Of Us Love You lyrics - Charley Pride
• Top Of The World lyrics - Charley Pride

Someday You Will lyrics - Charley Pride

You don't know how it feels but someday you will

At the moment you can't see what you're doing to me

You don't know how I feel but someday you will

It don't mean a thing to you all this hurt I'm going through

You don't know how it feels but someday you will

Someday you're gonna know what it's like to be blue

When the one you're hurting me for gets around to hurting you

Right now you can't visualize tears like mine in your eyes

You don't know how they feel but someday you will

Someday you're gonna know...

You don't know how they feel but someday you will

She Made Me Go lyrics - Charley Pride

Everybody thinks that I walked out on her they're calling me a no good so and so

Why can I make them see that though I walked away

I didn't want to leave she made me go

What makes them think I'll give up everything I love

There's a lot of things that they don't know

I've been accused of everything she's guilty of I didn't want to leave she made me go

She told everyone I didn't want to stay but I'll tell you her story isn't so

I'd give anything if it were that way I didn't want to leave she made me go

With her act I guess that she has fooled the town

With her phoney tips she's quite a show

My heart tells me that I'm the biggest fool around

Cause I love her though she made me go

She told everyone...

I didn't want to leave she made me go

Right To Do Wrong lyrics - Charley Pride

You gave me every right to love you now you prefer that I leave you alone

You push me away from you and every time you do

You're giving me the right to do wrong

You don't seem to notice that I need you if you care at all it's never shown

Each time you wound my pride by pushing me aside

You're giving me the right to do wrong

By causing me to turn to nameless faces for a love that I can't find at home

By forcing me to look in other places you're giving me the right to do wrong

Perhaps the day will come when you want me

But you'll find the love I had for you is gone

Then while I'll live in shame you can share the blame

Forgiving me the right to do wrong forgiving me the right to do wrong

Easy Part's Over lyrics - Charley Pride

The easy part's over now it's time to cry the easiest part of all was saying goodbye

The easy part's over now and you are gone now comes the hardest part living alone

Time is the only friend that I have left here with me

How can those healing hands of time erase your memory

The easy part's over now we've come to the end

The easy part's over now and the hard part begins

Time is the only friend...

Day You Stop Loving Me lyrics - Charley Pride

The world will tumble from its axes the sun will be covered by the sea

The moon will burn and turn to ashes the day you stop loving me

You gave me love and with your giving you opened my eyes and made them see

My life will cease to be worth living the day you stop loving me

Once there was only the beginning nothing but darkness over land and sea

My life would be like the beginning the day you stop loving me

You gave me love and with your giving you made me the man I was born to be

My life will cease to be worth living the day you stop loving me

The day you stop loving me

I Could Have Saved You The Time lyrics - Charley Pride

You wanted to know that you could break my heart but I could have told you you could

You just had to see if I'd go to pieces but I could have told you I would

Just think of the time not to mention the trouble

That you threw away on a heart like mine

If you just have to prove that you could destroy me I could have saved you the time

And so now you know that I can be foolish but I could have told you it's true

And so now you see that I have a glass heart but I could have told you I do

There may come a time you may run into trouble

You might find the need for a love like mine

If you're wondering which fool will be waiting for you I could have saved you the time

One Of These Days lyrics - Charley Pride

One of these days one of these days

I'll spend more time with you I'll do more things for you

To show you how much I love you one of these days

One of these days one of these days

When our children can share us when our duties can spare us

And our problems fade away one of these days

One of these days one of these days

When my job don't demand me and my work leaves some time free

When our fortune is made one of these days

One of these days one of these days

Till then please believe me and don't ever leave me

Believe me when I say one of these days one of these days

All The Time lyrics - Charley Pride

All the time yes darling all the time

Through the years through smiles or tears I'll love you

Every day I'll prove it every way

Through the years through smiles or tears I'll love you

Other arms may tempt me but don't let that bother you

For even if they tempt me I'll never be untrue

All the time yes darling all the time

Through the years through smiles or tears I'll love you

Other arms may tempt me...

Let Me Help You Work It Out lyrics - Charley Pride

There is something in your heart weighing heavy on your mind

You need gentle arms to hold you like these gentle arms of mine

You need love and understanding and the shoulder you can cry on

You need someone to rely on you don't have to be alone

Let me help you work it out help you face the situation

Count on me for consolation let me help you work it out

Let me help you work it out I'm the one who'll always care

When you need me I'll be there let me help you work it out

Let me help you work it out...

Both Of Us Love You lyrics - Charley Pride

You think only of yourself I think only of you too

What chance for me is left since both of us love you

We only think we agree on it's not to make you blue

We have a lot in common seems both of us love you seems both of us love you

How lonely I will be with all the love between us two

None of it belongs to me cause both of us love you

The only part I play is that other fool

Unwanted I keep staying just helping you love you

Yes both of us love you yes both of us love you

Top Of The World lyrics - Charley Pride

How's the view from the top of the world I wonder are you still my girl

From so far above me can you hear my plea wait for me at the top of the world

I just thought you might like to know that someone down here below

Is hopefully climbing the ladder of fortune

Don't step on my fingers don't make me let go

From your view at the top of the world do you remember you're still my girl

Or have you forgotten your promise to me that we'd meet at the top of the world

"Make Mine Country" (1968)

• Now I Can Live Again lyrics - Charley Pride
• A Word Or Two To Mary lyrics - Charley Pride
• If You Should Come Back Today lyrics - Charley Pride
• Guess Things Happen That Way lyrics - Charley Pride
• Before The Next Teardrop Falls lyrics - Charley Pride
• Banks Of The Ohio lyrics - Charley Pride
• Wings Of A Dove lyrics - Charley Pride
• A Girl I Used To Know lyric - Charley Pride
• Why Didn't I Think Of That lyrics - Charley Pride
• Above And Beyond (The Call Of Love) lyrics - Charley Pride
• Baby Is Gone lyrics - Charley Pride

Now I Can Live Again lyrics - Charley Pride

When my baby left me she left trouble all around

She left a tangle in mind and a tear in my eye and my heart was sorrow bound

But when I woke up this morning I brushed my teeth and combed my hair

Then I looked all around for a little tear but the little tear wasn't there

Now I can walk in the sunshine again now I can hold my head up high

Now I can walk like the man I have been now I can live again

I've spent some long nights thinking I guess I did some drinking too

I've cried at least the million tears and I had my share of the blues

But today it's finally over the world looks brighter to me now

I'm still here and she's still gone but it's all right somehow

Now I can walk in the sunshine again now I can hold my head up high

So I'll say goodbye to my drinking friends now I can live again now I can give again

A Word Or Two To Mary lyrics - Charley Pride

A word or two to Mary, please write a letter for me

That's what my buddy said to me today

I couldn't keep from cryin', sad eyes are looking at me

He said, I'll tell you what I wanted to say

Oh, I don't mind dyin', I just hate to leave you alone

And I wish that I could watch the children grow

But there's no use denyin', I won't be commin' home

Just a word or two to you before I go

Down on my knees beside him, I begged my buddy to live

I told the Lord to please take me instead

But a word or two to Mary was all my buddy could give

And just these words were all your husband said

Oh, I don't mind dyin', I just hate to leave you alone

And I wish that I could watch the children grow

But there's no use denyin', I won't be comming back home

Just a word or two to you before I go

A word or two to Mary, I must add some of my own

He was the truest friend I ever had

I'll keep writing letters to her to help the children along

Tell them in a way that it's from their Dad 

He didn't mind dyin', he just hated to leave you alone

And he wished that he could see his children grow

I'll be standing by them as I know he'd want me to

And write a word or two to Mary as they grow

And write a word or two to Mary as they grow

If You Should Come Back Today lyrics - Charley Pride

You'd stop at hundred and forty tears I forget the lonely years

I know I've been lost for words to say

I know my lonely heart would go wild you can bet I'd have to smile

If you should come back today

If you should come back I wonder what I'd act like

I wonder what I'd do I wonder what I'd say

I know that I do more than stand and smile while my crazy arms went wild

If you should come back today

I've done a lotta lonely midnight walkin' and some crazy senseless talkin'

I've missed you every kind of way

I know I surely lose control like a love that's in my soul if you should come back today

If you should come back...

If you should come back today

Guess Things Happen That Way lyrics - Charley Pride

(originally by Johnny Cash)

You ask me if I'll forget my baby I guess I will someday

I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

You ask me if I'll get along I guess I will someway

I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

God gave me that girl to lean on then he put me on my own

Heaven help me to be a man and have the strenght to stand alone

I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

You ask me if I'll miss her kisses I know I will everyday

I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

You ask me if I'll find another I don't know I can't say

I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

God gave me that girl to lean on...

Before The Next Teardrop Falls lyrics - Charley Pride

I'll be there before the next teardrop falls

If he brings you happiness then I wish you both the best

It's your happiness that matters most of all

But if he ever breaks your heart if the teardrops ever start

I'll be there before the next teardrop falls

Though it hurts to let you go darling I want you to know

And I'll stand by you if ever you should call

And if I should ever hear that he made you shed a tear

I'll be there before the next teardrop falls

I'll be there anytime you need me by your side

To dry away every teardrop that you cried

If he ever leaves you blue just remember I love you

And I'll be there before the next teardrop falls

And I'll be there before the next teardrop falls

Banks Of The Ohio lyrics - Charley Pride

I asked my love to take a walk 

Just to walk just a little way

As we talked of our future wedding day

And when she said she could never be mine

I placed a knife against her breast

As into my arms she pressed

She cried oh please don't murder me 

I'm not prepared for eternity

Only say that you'll be mine 

In no other arms entwined

Down beside where the waters flow 

Down by the banks of the Ohio

I started home tween twelve and one 

I cried my God what have I done

I've killed the only one I loved 

Because she would not be my bride

Only say that you'll be mine 

In no other arms entwined

Down beside where the waters flow 

Down by the banks of the Ohio

Wings Of A Dove lyrics - Charley Pride

On the wings of a snow white dove He sends His pure sweet love

A sign from above on the wings of a dove

When troubles surround us when evils come the body grows weak the spirit grows numb

When these things beset us he doesn't forget us

He sends down his love on the wings of a dove

On the wings of a snow white dove...

When Noah has drifted on the flood many days he searched for land in various ways

Troubles he had some but wasn't forgotten

He sent him His love on the wings of a dove

On the wings of a snow white dove...

On the wings of a snow white dove...

A sign from above on the wings of a dove

A Girl I Used To Know lyric - Charley Pride

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

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

Why Didn't I Think Of That lyrics - Charley Pride

I hear your new love sends you pretty something different each day

And he never forget to call you whenever he's away

He sends you flowers and candy tied in ribbons of blue

Why didn't I think of that before I lost you

He takes you dancing out with the crowd

And when you walk beside him he looks so proud

He does thoughtful little things that I didn't do

Why didn't I think of that before I lost you

But I was so concerned with other things I couldn't see

How lonely you were for the love you never got from me

I should have told you every day I was thankful for you

Why didn't I think of that before I lost you

Why didn't I think of that before I lost you

Above And Beyond (The Call Of Love) lyrics - Charley Pride

Well I'll give you love that's above and beyond the call of love

And I'll never ever make you cry

Yes I'll give you love that's above and beyond the call of love

And love's something that money can't buy

Well a poor boy's chances for pretty girl's glances are sometimes very few

Though I've got no money if you'll be my honey here's what I'll offer you

Well I'll give you love...

We met by chance and I knew at a glance that I'd found my destiny

Now I want to carry you off and marry you if you will agree

And I'll give you love...

Baby Is Gone lyrics - Charley Pride

The world goes around and the young men get old

The people next door are all down with the cold

The stars are in the heaven that's where they belong

They don't shine in my world since baby is gone

If I were a writer I'd write me a song and all I could say is my baby is gone

They had a farsail downtown yesterday

They say that newport house will be finished right away

The weatherman says sunshine but I know he's wrong

But I don't really care cause baby is gone

If I were a traveler I'd go to Hongkong and try to forget that my baby is gone

The sheep're in the meadow the cows're in the corn

And I'm here a wishing I'd never been born

The newspaper said bout the world's goin' wrong

Ain't worried bout the world cause baby is gone

If I were a singer I'd sing me a song but who wants to sing when his baby is gone

"The Country Way" (1967)

• Too Hard To Say I'm Sorry lyrics - Charley Pride
• Little Folks lyrics - Charley Pride
• Crystal Chandeliers lyrics - Charley Pride
• Act Naturally lyrics - Charley Pride
• Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger lyrics - Charley Pride
• Mama Don't Cry For Me lyrics - Charley Pride
• Day The World Stood Still lyrics - Charley Pride
• Gone On The Other Hand lyrics - Charley Pride
• I'll Wander Back To You lyrics - Charley Pride
• Life Turned Her That Way lyrics - Charley Pride
• I Threw Away The Rose lyrics - Charley Pride (originally by Merle Haggard)

Too Hard To Say I'm Sorry lyrics - Charley Pride

Just two words were all that she would ask of me

And I could have the world and all its holds for me

Of love and tender care not the pain and the sorrow

That will be mine tomorrow but I just can't seem to say it I'm sorry

I know exactly what I should do admit I'm wrong it wouldn't take long

And she'd forgive me

And I know exactly what I ought to say but I'm not built that way

Wish that I could say I'm sorry

I'm a man at least that's what I'll like to think

A stubborn man who now is standing on the brink

Of hate and dispair and I care and I'm sorry

And I ought to tell her but I just can't seem to say it I'm sorry

I know exactly what I should do

But I'm a fool I guess I'll do the things that fools do

I'll stand and watch my dreams go down the drain in my stubborn way

And as they sink I'll say I'm sorry

Little Folks lyrics - Charley Pride

We've decided we can't work it out we might as well call it a day

We agree to disagree and go our seperate ways

We just don't seem to get along we're fightin' and we fuss

So we've agreed to part as friends is best for both of us.

But what's gonna happen to the little folks the little folks the little folks

What's gonna happen to the little folks who live in our house

Since we've decided we can't work it out we might as well ended this time

We fought enough and fussed enough and said too much this time

So we've agreed that the thing to do has set each other free

You'll go your way and I'll go mine that's best for you and me

But what's gonna happen to the little folks...

But maybe someday we'll look back and see how foolish we've been

Cause we might find just the little ones who'd lose in the end

But maybe things are not so bad, we're still in love you and I

And maybe we can work it out if we give it one more try

We owe that much to the little folks, the little folks the little folks

We owe that much to the little folks who live in our house

Crystal Chandeliers lyrics - Charley Pride

Oh the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall

The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall

But will the timely crowd that has you laughing loud help you dry your tears

When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers

I never did fit in too well with the folks you knew

And it's plain to see that the likes of me don't fit with you

So you traded me for the gaiety of the well to do

And you turned away from the love I offered you

Oh the crystal chandeliers...

I see your picture in the news most every day

You're the chosen girl of the social world so the stories say

But a paper smile only lasts a while then it fades away

And the love we knew will come home to you some day

Oh the crystal chandeliers...

When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers

Act Naturally lyrics - Charley Pride

They're a gonna put me in the movies they're gonna make a big star out of me

We'll make a film about a man who's sad and lonely and all I gotta do is act naturally

Well I'll bet you I'm a gonna be a big star might win an Oscar you can never tell

The movies are gonna make me a big star cause I can play the part so well

I hope you'll come to see me in the movies and I know that you will plainly see

The biggest fool that's ever hit the big time and all I gotta do is act naturally

We'll make a scene about a man that's sad and lonely

And begging down upon his bended knee

I'll play the part that I won't need rehearsing and all I gotta do is act naturally

Well I'll bet you I'm a gonna be a big star...

And all I gotta do is act naturally

Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger lyrics - Charley Pride

Does my ring hurt your finger

When you go out at night?

When I bought if for you darling,

It seemed to fit just right.

Should I take it to the jeweler

So it won't fit so tight?

Does my ring hurt your finger

When you go out at night?

Did you enjoy yourself last night dear

How was the show?

You know I don't mind it 

When you go.

I understand we all need time alone

But why do you always leave your ring at home?

Does my ring hurt your finger

When you're away from me?

I'm so proud when you wear it

For all the world to see.

Should I take it to the jeweler

So it won't fit so tight?

Does my ring hurt your finger

When you go out at night?

Does my ting hurt your finger

When you go out at night?

Mama Don't Cry For Me lyrics - Charley Pride

I've seen the big fish jumping mama I've heard crickets sing

And I've felt my heart start pounding at the side of New Orleans

I've seen the New York City with her lights aglow

I've been a lot of places always on the go

I've seen most everything I cared to see so mama when I'm gone don't cry for me

I've held a newborn baby mama in my arms so tight

And I've felt the warm love mama of a woman in the night

I've seen the desert flowers mama where they grow

I've climbed the highest mountains covered with snow

I've seen most everything I cared to see so mama when I'm gone don't cry for me

I'm sending you this message mama I must say goodbye

I live the life you gave me mama I'm not afraid to die

Even though I'm dying mama the hands of death are strong

I don't want you crying mama after I'm gone

I've seen all of this old world I cared to see so mama when I'm gone don't cry for me

So mama when I'm gone don't cry for me

Day The World Stood Still lyrics - Charley Pride

One day you came along and spoke so tenderly

You kissed me oh so sweet and gave your love to me

One moment in my life I clung to every thrill

Time was a precious thing the day the world stood still

For one day in my life you brought me happiness

You stopped the lonely world with all your tenderness

I can't get over you I guess I never will

Time was a precious thing the day the world stood still

The day the world stood still and you were only mine

I held you close to me and stopped the hands of time

I can't get over you I guess I never will

Time was a precious thing the day the world stood still

Time was a precious thing the day the world stood still

Gone On The Other Hand lyrics - Charley Pride

Someday I think I'll take up thinking and try my best to understand

How she could be loving me forever and leaving on the other hand

Last night I thought I'd see a movie to help me get my thoughts in hand

I think what I saw was the western preacher or James Bond on the other hand

I placed the ring upon one finger of her left hand

The one who said she'd stay forever is gone on the other hand

(And here's big Jim Talbott and his electric Hawaiian steel guitar)

But today the world looks brighter I feel just like a brand new man

I love her no longer I don't miss her I'm lying on the other hand

She's gone I know I'm being foolish I should act like a grown up man

But things could get worse I could start crying I do on the other hand

I placed the ring...

The one who said she'd stay forever is gone on the other hand

I'll Wander Back To You lyrics - Charley Pride

They say I'm like my daddy always on the roam

I know he love my mama but he couldn't stay at home

I vowed to not be like him but somewhere I went wrong

Cause I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and the girl I love at home

One of these days I'm gonna quit my wandering

One of these days I'll wander back to you

My sweetheart writes me letters they find me now and then

I've send her funny postcards to show her where I've been

She always writes I love you though we're miles apart

But none of funny postcards can't say what's in my heart

One of these days...

I feel the cold winds blowing blowing up a storm

I go to sleep and I always dream that you're here in my arms

And then a lonesome whistle starts blowin' down the line

Wake up boy my buddy says we're a long way from Caroline

One of these days...

One of these days I'll wander back to you

Life Turned Her That Way lyrics - Charley Pride

If she seems cold and bitter I beg of you

Just stop and consider all she's been through

Don't be quick to condemn her for things she might say

Just remember life turned her that way

She's been walked on and stepped on so many times

And I hate to admit it but the last footprint's mine

She was crying when I met her she cries harder today

So don't blame her life turned her that way

She's been walked on...

I Threw Away The Rose lyrics - Charley Pride (originally by Merle Haggard)

Once I lived a life of wine and roses and I drank a lot back then for one concern

Success for me lay just around the corner

I thought my social friends would help me make me turn

But now I'm paying for the days of wine and roses a victim of the drunken life I chose

Now all my social friends look down their noses

Cause I kept the wine and threw away the rose

I stood by and watched the bottle take control of me

The turn I made was not the one I'd planned

And I watched my social standings slip away from me

While I watched the bottle slowly take command

But now I'm paying for...