Dottie West Album

When I was just a young girl my mama told me hon
What country's where you've been to what country's where you're from
Now I don't wanna hurt you honey can't you see
No I'm not in the country the country's still in me
I've got Carolina cousins Carolina kin (they're waiting there)
At the gates of almost heaven they'll let me in
My Carolina cousins will smile and say hello so for now I've gotta say goodbye and go

You found the country bluebird with a broken wing and tehn
You took her to the city and made her well again
But a hundred smilin' faces and a hundred voices call
Love you but I'm homesick so I'm leavin' after all
Cause I've got Carolina cousins...

Soon you'll get a letter to say I'll meet the bus
You'll just be there on it we'll make one of us
Someday if God's willin' you're gonna tell our son
What country's where you've been to boy what country's where you're from
And you'll have Carolina cousins...
Cause I've got Carolina cousins...

Today for her has only been thirteen years of livin'
And for me it's been a wonderful thirteen years of givin'
She grows taller every day and farther from my world
God help me reach this stranger my little girl
Music I can't understand replaced her nursery rhymes
No longer can I even guess what's running through her mind
Her long straight hair has forgotten ribbons and soft curles
God please protect this stranger my little girl
Can she hear the worried sound in her mom's conversation
Can she see the anguish in my look of desperation
Can she feel my love for her pulling against her world
I love her so this stranger my little girl
Has she so soon forgotten how close we used to be
And how when something troubled her she'd always run to me
But mom can't solve her problems she keeps locked inside her world
God help me reach this stranger my little girl

You say you found it easy pleasin' your country girl
Her simple way of livin's brought real love to your world
A home cook meals her frensh cafe a night with you her Braodway play
And it really makes me happy knowin' I'm your country girl
You tell her she's a pleasure and the treasure in your arms
You love her warm and tender unsophisticated charms
There's no diamonds in her wedding ring wear your name's her claim to fame
And it really makes me happy knowin' I'm your country girl
[ strings ]
They say you have your choise of girls why picked a girl like me
Yet you took me out to places for all your friends to see
You held my hand and called me dear your nights have always been sincere
And it really makes me happy knowin' I'm your country girl
Yes it really makes me happy knowin' I'm your country girl

I'd never thought you'd come back for the pieces
Of the love you left scattered behind
Take what's left there's no way I can stop you
You still have control of my heart and my mind
Here's your chance to hurt me all over but this time my pride feels no pain
So tear me down too low it don't matter go on destroy me again
Day by day you let me recall the mem'ries
And relive all the dreams and all the good times we've planned
Stay a while you see I still love you go on destroy me again go on destroy me again

When I wake up every morning you're the first thing that I see
And like a new day that is dawning I feel the warmth come over me
I can face the world a courage I can make it through the day
Cause I know your love comes with me standin' by me all the way
Oh what a beautiful way to live just givin' you all the love can give
Oh what a wonderful thing to see that you don't want nobody but me
[ guitar ]
I don't know how I'm deservin' to be blessed with all these things
Like the sweet love you keep servin' and the happiness it brings
I don't worry bout tomorrow way I always used to do
Cause tomorrow I'll be sharin' for some yesterday with you
Oh what a beautiful way...
[ fiddle ]
Oh what a beautiful way...

Thanks for the ride hey Mister it's nice I look just like your sister
You'd like to show me a good time I believe you
Thanks for the offer but here's where I leave you
Route 65 to Nashville I will pick it up just south of Lousville
It's on the right the sign is green and wide
I know it's way around that next hill Route 65 to Nashville

I've ran away to nowhere bright lights of City nights I'd go there
I've learned the hard way you can't be happy hidin'
My best of broadway from here on in I'm ridin'
Route 65 to Nashville...

He was country folk like I am I left to town and I left my man
And now I miss him I've got to be believin'
We still can make it so here's where I'm leavin'
Route 65 to Nashville...
Route 65 to Nashville Route 65 to Nashville Route 65 to Nashville

(Here's a song for every woman who's ever waited for her man to come home
And for every man who's longed to be there)
There's a storm across the valley the clouds're rolling in
The afternoon is heavy on your shoulders
There's a truck out on the forelane a mile or more away
The whining of his wheels just makes it colder
He's an hour away from ridin' on your prayers up in the skies
Ten days on the road are barely gone
There's a fire softly burning supper's on the stove
But the light in your eyes that makes him warm
Hey it's good to be back home again
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend
Yes and hey it's good to be back home again

There's all the news to tell him how you spent your time
And what's the lady's thing the neighbors say
And your mother called last Friday sunshine made her cry
You felt your baby moved just yesterday
Hey it's good to be...

And all the time that I can lay this tired old body down
And feel your fingers feather soft on me
The kisses that I live for the love that won't go away
The happiness that live in with you brings me
It's the sweetest thing I know of just spendin' time with you
It's the livin' thing that make a house a home
Like a fire so softly burning the supper's on the stove
And the light in your eyes that makes me warm
Hey it's good to be...
Hey it's good to be...

I love you please believe me I wouldn't want you to ever leave me
But I was raised on country sunshine
I was raised on country sunshine green grass beneath my feet
Runnin' through fields of daisies a wadin' through the creek
You love me and it's invitin' to go where life is more excitin'
But I was raised on country sunshine
I was raised on country sunshine I'm happy with the simple things
A Saturday night dance a picture show and the joy that the bluebird brings
I love you please believe me I wouldn't want you to ever leave me
But I was raised on country sunshine
There's just something bout the mornin' makes each day a joy to see
Nighttime brings a peaceful feelin' to rest inside of me
I love you please believe me I wouldn't want you to ever leave me
But I was raised on country sunshine
Oh I love you please believe me...
Uh huh I was raised on country sunshine oh oh I was raised on country sunshine

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I'm rollin' rollin' rollin' in the sunshine of your sweet sweet love
So many loves left me in darkness I'd lock my heart and slept alone at night
But when you smiled a window opened
In poured the sun you were the one who let him to light
And now I'm rollin' in your sweet sweet sunshine
In a dream I never dreamed of dreaming of
Well I'm rollin' in your sweet sweet sunshine
Rollin' in the heaven of your sweet sweet love

Your love peeked in like early morning and softly took the shadows from my mind
Gone were the doubts the dark suspicions
Your gentle ways made better days so easy to find
And now I'm rollin' in...
And now I'm rollin' in...