Loretta Lynn Album

Before you first made love to me
You called me, your wife-to-be
And after that, I saw the devil in your eyes
With your sweet smooth talkin' ways
You turned a flame into a blaze
The night I let you hang
My wings upon your horns.

Don't tell me that I'm no saint
I'm the first to know I ain't
There's a little thing called love
And that's what changed me
)From an innocent country girl
To a woman of the world
The night I let you hang
My wings upon your horns.

You hung my wings upon your horns
And turned my halo into thorns
And turned me into a woman I can't stand
You're the first to ever make me
Fall in love and then not take me
The night I let you hang
My wings upon your horns.

You hung my wings upon your horns
And turned my halo into thorns
And turned me into a woman I can't stand
You're the first to ever make me
Fall in love and then not take me
The night I let you hang
My wings upon your horns...

(Loretta Lynn - Lorene Allen)

You want me to come down to your level
You know that's pretty low
That looks like I will soon be there
'Cause I don't have very far to go.

You turn my feet in your direction
And I follow everywhere
So when I reach the bottom
You'd better be there.

I'm going down the ladder
One step at a time
I'm going down the ladder
That I'll never climb.

You keep a saying come on down
Like a fool I ask you where
So when I reach the bottom
You'd better be there.

--- Instrumental ---

The road we're on is a going down the hill
And I'm turning where you turn
You're teaching me your way of life
And it didn't take me very long to learn.

I'll do anything you want me to
I've got to where I don't care
But when I reach the bottom
You'd better be there.

I'm going down the ladder
One step at a time
I'm going down the ladder
That I'll never climb.

You keep a saying come on down
Like a fool I ask you where
So when I reach the bottom
You'd better be there.

So when I reach the bottom
You'd better be there...

(Ruby VanNoy - Ann Burns - Barbara Fairchild)

Today for her it's 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 anquish 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 just how closed we used to be
And how went 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.

Can she hear the worried sound in her mom's conversation
Can she see the anquish 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...

I can see you come to gossip
And they tell me so and so
But there's not a thing about him
I don't already know.

I guess you think I'm crazy
But it keeps him here with me
And I only see the things
I wanna see.

I only see the things I wanna see
Where he's concerned
It wouldn't do my heart no good
Believe in what I've learned.

I can't face the truth about the man
He'll never be
So I only see the things
I wanna see.

--- Instrumental ---

I only see the things I wanna see
Where he's concerned
It wouldn't do my heart much good
Believe in what I've learned.

But it's worth all my heartaches
When I have him here with me
So I only see the things I wanna see
Yes, I only see the things I wanna see...

[No lyrics]

I know you see that don't touch sun all over me
My pain is wet and you'll get hurt all over you
I'm another man's woman to you I'm just bad news
I'm dynamite, so please don't light the fuse.

You turn me on but I can't turn me off
I guess the switch is burried in my mind
The flame of love is burning just begging to be used
I'm dynamite, so please don't light the fuse.

You cannot do the damage that I'll do
And the first thing I'll destroy it will be you
Too many other hearts and vows that I can't stand to lose
I'm dynamite, so please don't light the fuse.

--- Instrumental ---

You cannot do the damage that I'll do
And the first thing I'll destroy it will be you
Too many other hearts and vows that I can't stand to lose
I'm dynamite, so please don't light the fuse.
I'm dynamite, so please don't light the fuse...

[No lyrics]

I feel like a stranger in this home I share with you
I can't understand this awful change you're going through
But lately I've been watchin' you grow colder every day
And I'd rather be gone than in your way.

I'd rather be gone than in your way
I'd rather have someone else here in my place
And if I decide on leavin' my world will end today
But I'd rather be gone than in your way.

--- Instrumental ---

I'd rather be gone than in your way
I'd rather have someone else here in my place
And if I decide on leavin' my world will end today
But I'd rather be gone than in your way...

(Loretta Lynn - Frances Rhodes)

Because I won't give in to you
You don't treat me like you should
You said that I'm too perfect
Then you tell me I'm no good.

But everyone is guilty
Of sometimes doin' wrong
But even so you wouldn't know
An angel if you saw one.

No, you wouldn't know
An angel if you saw one
You won't see any halos
On the women found in bars.

I may not get to heaven
But I'm not the only one
To tell you so you wouldn't know
An angel if you saw one.

--- Instrumental ---

Now you stand there accusing me
Of things you always do
And half the things you're telling me
Are things I never knew.

I don't go places you go
But that's your way of think
If yours is yours you wouldn't knows
An angel if you saw one.

No, you wouldn't know
An angel if you saw one
You won't see any halos
On the women found in bars.

I may not get to heaven
But I'm not the only one
To tell you so you wouldn't know
An angel if you saw one...

I'll still be missing you
Just as long as the sun shines through
No matter what I do
I'll still be missing you.

I told myself when I walked out your door
Don't look back you don't need him anymore
Out there somewhere a new world you're gonna find
So walk away and leave the rest of time

I'll still be missing you
Just as long as the sun shines through
Pretending that I'm not blue
I'll still be missing you.

--- Instrumental ---

What a fool I was to think that I could leave
Away of life already built in me
Now all those times that used to seem so bad
I know now were the best I've ever had.

I'll still be missing you
Just as long as the sun shines through
Pretending that I'm not blue
I'll still be missing you...

Well, this ol' world is a gettin' worse
And worse every day
People livin' up above their heads
And makin' bills that they can't pay.

They're jealous of their neighbors
And it's been like that since birth
So come on down and get your feet on the ground
Let's get back down to earth.

Let's get back down to earth
And live with the common people
Then we won't be meserable
When we get old and feeble.

Let's all be honest with ourselves
We all know what we're worth
So come on down and get your feet on the ground
Let's get back down to earth.

--- Instrumental ---

When we all come to this ol' world
We didn't bring a thing
And when we all leave this ol' world
We're gonna take the same.

You'll be no better than I am
When the man says dirt to dirt
So come on down and get your feet on the ground
Let's get back down to earth.

Let's get back down to earth
And live with the common people
Then we won't be meserable
When we get old and feeble.

Let's all be honest with ourselves
We all know what we're worth
So come on down and get your feet on the ground
Let's get back down to earth.

Come on down and get your feet on the ground
Let's get back down to earth...