Charley Pride
Charley Pride (born Charley Frank Pride on 18 March 1934; died 12 December … Read Full Bio ↴Charley Pride (born Charley Frank Pride on 18 March 1934; died 12 December 2020) was an American singer, musician, guitarist, business owner, and professional baseball player. His greatest musical success came in the early to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. During the peak years of his recording career (1966–87), he garnered 52 top-10 hits on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 30 of which made it to number one. He also won the Entertainer of the Year award at the US Country Music Association Awards in 1971.
Becoming a trailblazing Country Music superstar was an improbable destiny for Pride, especially considering his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in Sledge, Mississippi. His unique journey to the top of the music charts includes a tumultuous detour through the world of Negro league, minor league and semi-pro baseball as well as many long years of labor alongside the vulcanic fires of a smelter. But in the end, with boldness, perseverance and undeniable musical talent, he managed to parlay a series of fortuitous encounters with Nashville insiders into an amazing legacy of hit singles and tens of millions in record sales.
Growing up, Pride was exposed primarily to Blues, Gospel and Country music. His father inadvertently fostered Charley’s love of Country music by tuning the family’s Philco radio to Nashville’s WSM-AM in order to catch Grand Ole Opry broadcasts. At 14 years of age, Pride purchased his first guitar—a Silvertone from a Sears Roebuck catalog—and taught himself how to play it by listening to the songs that he heard on that radio.
By the age of 16, Pride began emerging as a talented baseball player. He first played organized games in the Iowa State League and then professional games in the Negro American League as a pitcher and outfielder for the Memphis Red Sox. In 1953, he signed a contract with the Boise Yankees, the Class C farm team of the New York Yankees. But during that season an injury hampered his pitching. He was first sent to the Yankees' Class D team in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and then released. Over the next several years, Charley rejoined the Memphis Red Sox, moved to the Louisville Clippers and then was traded, along with another player, to the Birmingham Black Barons for a used bus. He also played for the El Paso Kings and a team in Nogales, Mexico. Upon rejoining the Memphis Red Sox in 1956 he won 14 games as a pitcher and earned himself a position on the Negro American League All-Star Team. As an all-star player that year, Pride pitched against a group of major league all-stars that included Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Al Smith, Gene Baker and Ernie Banks.
Between ballparks, Pride often passed the time and entertained teammates by singing and playing his guitar on the team bus. And during these travels he happily joined performers onstage whenever he was given the opportunity.
In late 1956 Pride was drafted by the US Army and ordered to report to Fort Chaffee, Arkansas for basic training. During Christmas leave from basic training, he married his wife Rozene, who he had met earlier in the year while playing baseball in Memphis. After basic training, he was stationed at Fort Carson, near Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he was assigned to quartermaster duty and the fort’s baseball team. Upon receiving his discharge from the US Army in early 1958, Pride rejoined the Memphis Red Sox and returned to doggedly pursuing his dream of becoming a major league baseball pitcher.
In 1960, Pride moved to Montana to play for the Missoula Timberjacks in the Pioneer League, but ended up working at a smelter operated by the Anaconda Mining Company and playing for its semi-pro baseball team, the East Helena Smelterites. In 1961, he was invited to try out for the Los Angeles Angels during spring training but found himself heading back home to Helena, Montana after just two weeks.
During the first half of the 1960’s, Pride continued to work at the smelter and play baseball for its semi-pro team. But he also began making a name for himself as a music performer by singing the national anthem at baseball games and performing at honky-tonks and nightclubs in the Helena, Anaconda and Great Falls areas. Sometimes he performed as a solo artist and other times as a member of a combo or group.
In 1962, with the help of Tiny Stokes, a local disc jockey, Pride was introduced to Country singers Red Sovine and Red Foley and invited to perform “Heartaches By The Numbers” and “Lovesick Blues” during one of their shows. This brief initial encounter with Red Sovine would turn out to be crucial in laying the groundwork for Charley’s future music career.
After a disastrous 1963 tryout with the New York Mets in Clearwater, Florida it became clear that a major league baseball career was not in the cards. Charley chose to return to Montana via Tennessee because Red Sovine had told him that if he ever became serious about a singing career and decided to come to Nashville, he should stop by Cedarwood Publishing, the company that booked Sovine’s shows.
From the bus station in Nashville, Pride walked straight over to Cedarwood’s office and by sheer luck ended up meeting Jack Johnson, who had been actively searching for a promising black Country singer. Johnson made a simply produced recording of Charley performing a couple of songs and then immediately drove him back to the bus station with the promise of a management contract. Johnson quickly made good on that promise and it was the beginning of a working relationship that would start off slow, but prove to be very fruitful over the next decade.
Johnson ran into significantly more resistance than he had anticipated as he shopped around the crude demo recording that he had made of Charley to the record labels in Nashville. It wasn’t until 1965 that forward progress was made. Charley came to Nashville and Johnson introduced him to producer, Jack Clement. Clement gave Charley seven songs to learn and within a week they cut three of these songs–“The Snakes Crawl At Night”, “Atlantic Coastal Line” and “Just Between You And Me”–during a three-hour studio session with top-notch session players.
Even with the professionally produced sides, Johnson and Clement continued to have a difficult time as they shopped Charley around to the Nashville labels. But finally in 1966, Chet Atkins decided to trust his ears and signed Charley to RCA Records. Atkins took Charley under his wing, nurtured his talent and figured out how to dance past the race issue, which was no small feat during mid 1960s America. Although Charley’s first couple of singles failed to jump-start his career, “Just Between You and Me” caught fire in 1967, breaking into the Top-10 Country chart and garnering Charley his first Grammy nomination.
What happened next is Country Music history. Charley Pride quickly became Country Music’s first African-American superstar. Between 1967 and 1987, he amassed no fewer than 52 Top-10 Country hits and went on to sell tens of millions of records worldwide. In 1971, Charley won two Grammy Awards related to his Gospel album Did You Think To Pray –“Best Sacred Performance, Musical (Non-Classical)” for the album, as well as “Best Gospel Performance Other Than Soul” for the single “Let Me Live.” Later that year, his #1 crossover hit “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’” sold over a million singles and helped him to win the Country Music Association’s “Entertainer of the Year” award and the “Top Male Vocalist” awards of 1971 and 1972. It also brought him a “Best Male Country Vocal Performance” Grammy Award in 1972. Some of Charley’s hits from his 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s output include “All I Have To Offer You Is Me,” “Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone,” “Amazing Love,” “Mississippi Cotton Pickin’ Delta Town,” “Burgers And Fries,” “Roll On Mississippi” and “Mountain Of Love.” After parting ways with RCA Records in 1986, Charley spent the remainder of the decade releasing albums on the 16th Avenue Records label.
In 1993, Charley was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, 26 years after he had first played there as a guest. On December 9th of that year he performed at the White House for President Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and many others during the Lighting of the National Christmas Tree celebration at President's Park.
Pride: The Charley Pride Story, an autobiography that Charley wrote with the assistance of Jim Henderson, was published in 1994. This book covers the events of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in significantly more depth.
In 1994, he opened the Charley Pride Theatre in Branson Missouri where he performed for 4 years, doing nearly 200 shows yearly. Also in 1994, Pride was honored by the Academy of Country Music with its prestigious Pioneer Award. And from 1994 until 1997, Pride released several albums on the Honest Entertainment record label.
In 2000, Pride was honored with an induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Shortly thereafter, he began releasing new music on the Music City Records label, including his critically acclaimed A Tribute To Jim Reeves (2001) and Pride And Joy: A Gospel Music Collection (2006) albums.
Charley appeared in the 2009 documentary film, The Black List: Vol. 2, which aired on HBO. The film is a component of The Black List Project, which interviews, films and photographs prominent African Americans of various professions, disciplines and backgrounds.
On July 21, 2009 Charley performed for President Barack Obama and guests in the historic East Room of the White House. His performance was part of a concert and educational workshop event (the White House Music Series) that also featured Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss. Hosted by Michelle Obama, the purpose of the event was to support the arts and demonstrate the continuing importance of arts education in America.
As part of an investment group spearheaded by Hall Of Game pitcher, Nolan Ryan, Charley became one of the owners of the Texas Rangers major league baseball team in 2010. The investment group purchased the team in a federal bankruptcy auction just weeks before the Rangers appeared in the World Series for the first time in team history. Charley has a long history with the Texas Rangers–he was invited to work out with the team during spring training in the 1970s and has continued to do so every year since. Each February and March, Charley blocks off several weeks from his schedule so that he can work out with the team at their Arizona spring training facility. In addition, Pride was drafted in 2008 by the Rangers during Major League Baseball’s ceremonial Special Negro League Player Draft.
Charley’s latest studio album Choices will be released on March 8, 2011. It features 13 new recordings written by such songwriters as Ted Harris (who wrote “Crystal Chandeliers”) and Ben Peters (who wrote “Kiss An Angel Good Morning” and many other Pride hits) as well as tracks penned by such fellow Country music stars as Eddy Raven and Richie McDonald (Lonestar).
Charley calls Dallas, Texas home. He relocated his family from Helena to Great Falls, Montana in 1967 and then to Dallas in 1969.
As of 2011, Charley continues to play 30 to 40 concert dates a year throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He also performs at the Grand Ole Opry several times each year and hosts an annual fan club breakfast in Nashville each June. In addition to performing, recording new music and spending spring training with the Texas Rangers, he enjoys playing golf and spending time with his family.
Charley Pride's official website is at www.charleypride.com and his official Facebook page is at www.facebook.com/charleypride
Becoming a trailblazing Country Music superstar was an improbable destiny for Pride, especially considering his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in Sledge, Mississippi. His unique journey to the top of the music charts includes a tumultuous detour through the world of Negro league, minor league and semi-pro baseball as well as many long years of labor alongside the vulcanic fires of a smelter. But in the end, with boldness, perseverance and undeniable musical talent, he managed to parlay a series of fortuitous encounters with Nashville insiders into an amazing legacy of hit singles and tens of millions in record sales.
Growing up, Pride was exposed primarily to Blues, Gospel and Country music. His father inadvertently fostered Charley’s love of Country music by tuning the family’s Philco radio to Nashville’s WSM-AM in order to catch Grand Ole Opry broadcasts. At 14 years of age, Pride purchased his first guitar—a Silvertone from a Sears Roebuck catalog—and taught himself how to play it by listening to the songs that he heard on that radio.
By the age of 16, Pride began emerging as a talented baseball player. He first played organized games in the Iowa State League and then professional games in the Negro American League as a pitcher and outfielder for the Memphis Red Sox. In 1953, he signed a contract with the Boise Yankees, the Class C farm team of the New York Yankees. But during that season an injury hampered his pitching. He was first sent to the Yankees' Class D team in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and then released. Over the next several years, Charley rejoined the Memphis Red Sox, moved to the Louisville Clippers and then was traded, along with another player, to the Birmingham Black Barons for a used bus. He also played for the El Paso Kings and a team in Nogales, Mexico. Upon rejoining the Memphis Red Sox in 1956 he won 14 games as a pitcher and earned himself a position on the Negro American League All-Star Team. As an all-star player that year, Pride pitched against a group of major league all-stars that included Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Al Smith, Gene Baker and Ernie Banks.
Between ballparks, Pride often passed the time and entertained teammates by singing and playing his guitar on the team bus. And during these travels he happily joined performers onstage whenever he was given the opportunity.
In late 1956 Pride was drafted by the US Army and ordered to report to Fort Chaffee, Arkansas for basic training. During Christmas leave from basic training, he married his wife Rozene, who he had met earlier in the year while playing baseball in Memphis. After basic training, he was stationed at Fort Carson, near Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he was assigned to quartermaster duty and the fort’s baseball team. Upon receiving his discharge from the US Army in early 1958, Pride rejoined the Memphis Red Sox and returned to doggedly pursuing his dream of becoming a major league baseball pitcher.
In 1960, Pride moved to Montana to play for the Missoula Timberjacks in the Pioneer League, but ended up working at a smelter operated by the Anaconda Mining Company and playing for its semi-pro baseball team, the East Helena Smelterites. In 1961, he was invited to try out for the Los Angeles Angels during spring training but found himself heading back home to Helena, Montana after just two weeks.
During the first half of the 1960’s, Pride continued to work at the smelter and play baseball for its semi-pro team. But he also began making a name for himself as a music performer by singing the national anthem at baseball games and performing at honky-tonks and nightclubs in the Helena, Anaconda and Great Falls areas. Sometimes he performed as a solo artist and other times as a member of a combo or group.
In 1962, with the help of Tiny Stokes, a local disc jockey, Pride was introduced to Country singers Red Sovine and Red Foley and invited to perform “Heartaches By The Numbers” and “Lovesick Blues” during one of their shows. This brief initial encounter with Red Sovine would turn out to be crucial in laying the groundwork for Charley’s future music career.
After a disastrous 1963 tryout with the New York Mets in Clearwater, Florida it became clear that a major league baseball career was not in the cards. Charley chose to return to Montana via Tennessee because Red Sovine had told him that if he ever became serious about a singing career and decided to come to Nashville, he should stop by Cedarwood Publishing, the company that booked Sovine’s shows.
From the bus station in Nashville, Pride walked straight over to Cedarwood’s office and by sheer luck ended up meeting Jack Johnson, who had been actively searching for a promising black Country singer. Johnson made a simply produced recording of Charley performing a couple of songs and then immediately drove him back to the bus station with the promise of a management contract. Johnson quickly made good on that promise and it was the beginning of a working relationship that would start off slow, but prove to be very fruitful over the next decade.
Johnson ran into significantly more resistance than he had anticipated as he shopped around the crude demo recording that he had made of Charley to the record labels in Nashville. It wasn’t until 1965 that forward progress was made. Charley came to Nashville and Johnson introduced him to producer, Jack Clement. Clement gave Charley seven songs to learn and within a week they cut three of these songs–“The Snakes Crawl At Night”, “Atlantic Coastal Line” and “Just Between You And Me”–during a three-hour studio session with top-notch session players.
Even with the professionally produced sides, Johnson and Clement continued to have a difficult time as they shopped Charley around to the Nashville labels. But finally in 1966, Chet Atkins decided to trust his ears and signed Charley to RCA Records. Atkins took Charley under his wing, nurtured his talent and figured out how to dance past the race issue, which was no small feat during mid 1960s America. Although Charley’s first couple of singles failed to jump-start his career, “Just Between You and Me” caught fire in 1967, breaking into the Top-10 Country chart and garnering Charley his first Grammy nomination.
What happened next is Country Music history. Charley Pride quickly became Country Music’s first African-American superstar. Between 1967 and 1987, he amassed no fewer than 52 Top-10 Country hits and went on to sell tens of millions of records worldwide. In 1971, Charley won two Grammy Awards related to his Gospel album Did You Think To Pray –“Best Sacred Performance, Musical (Non-Classical)” for the album, as well as “Best Gospel Performance Other Than Soul” for the single “Let Me Live.” Later that year, his #1 crossover hit “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’” sold over a million singles and helped him to win the Country Music Association’s “Entertainer of the Year” award and the “Top Male Vocalist” awards of 1971 and 1972. It also brought him a “Best Male Country Vocal Performance” Grammy Award in 1972. Some of Charley’s hits from his 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s output include “All I Have To Offer You Is Me,” “Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone,” “Amazing Love,” “Mississippi Cotton Pickin’ Delta Town,” “Burgers And Fries,” “Roll On Mississippi” and “Mountain Of Love.” After parting ways with RCA Records in 1986, Charley spent the remainder of the decade releasing albums on the 16th Avenue Records label.
In 1993, Charley was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, 26 years after he had first played there as a guest. On December 9th of that year he performed at the White House for President Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and many others during the Lighting of the National Christmas Tree celebration at President's Park.
Pride: The Charley Pride Story, an autobiography that Charley wrote with the assistance of Jim Henderson, was published in 1994. This book covers the events of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in significantly more depth.
In 1994, he opened the Charley Pride Theatre in Branson Missouri where he performed for 4 years, doing nearly 200 shows yearly. Also in 1994, Pride was honored by the Academy of Country Music with its prestigious Pioneer Award. And from 1994 until 1997, Pride released several albums on the Honest Entertainment record label.
In 2000, Pride was honored with an induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Shortly thereafter, he began releasing new music on the Music City Records label, including his critically acclaimed A Tribute To Jim Reeves (2001) and Pride And Joy: A Gospel Music Collection (2006) albums.
Charley appeared in the 2009 documentary film, The Black List: Vol. 2, which aired on HBO. The film is a component of The Black List Project, which interviews, films and photographs prominent African Americans of various professions, disciplines and backgrounds.
On July 21, 2009 Charley performed for President Barack Obama and guests in the historic East Room of the White House. His performance was part of a concert and educational workshop event (the White House Music Series) that also featured Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss. Hosted by Michelle Obama, the purpose of the event was to support the arts and demonstrate the continuing importance of arts education in America.
As part of an investment group spearheaded by Hall Of Game pitcher, Nolan Ryan, Charley became one of the owners of the Texas Rangers major league baseball team in 2010. The investment group purchased the team in a federal bankruptcy auction just weeks before the Rangers appeared in the World Series for the first time in team history. Charley has a long history with the Texas Rangers–he was invited to work out with the team during spring training in the 1970s and has continued to do so every year since. Each February and March, Charley blocks off several weeks from his schedule so that he can work out with the team at their Arizona spring training facility. In addition, Pride was drafted in 2008 by the Rangers during Major League Baseball’s ceremonial Special Negro League Player Draft.
Charley’s latest studio album Choices will be released on March 8, 2011. It features 13 new recordings written by such songwriters as Ted Harris (who wrote “Crystal Chandeliers”) and Ben Peters (who wrote “Kiss An Angel Good Morning” and many other Pride hits) as well as tracks penned by such fellow Country music stars as Eddy Raven and Richie McDonald (Lonestar).
Charley calls Dallas, Texas home. He relocated his family from Helena to Great Falls, Montana in 1967 and then to Dallas in 1969.
As of 2011, Charley continues to play 30 to 40 concert dates a year throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He also performs at the Grand Ole Opry several times each year and hosts an annual fan club breakfast in Nashville each June. In addition to performing, recording new music and spending spring training with the Texas Rangers, he enjoys playing golf and spending time with his family.
Charley Pride's official website is at www.charleypride.com and his official Facebook page is at www.facebook.com/charleypride
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Charley Pride Lyrics
(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again Sometimes I want to throw my arms around you Then I…
A Brand New Bed Of Roses I'm looking for a brand new bed of roses A love…
A Girl I Used to Know There's a picture that I carry one we made some…
A Good Chance of Tear-Fall Tonight When we met you brought the sunshine In the summer of…
A Mansion on the Hill I can see your mansion on the hill Tonight down here…
A Place for the Lonesome There's a place just down the street for the lonesome Where…
A Poor Boy Like Me She grew up in the backwood country Found her dreams…
A Shoulder To Cry On I came here because I knew I'd be welcome And because…
A Whole Lotta Things To Sing About [Chorus:] I've got a whole lot of things to sing about I've…
A Whole Lotta Things to Sing About (Live) Whole Lotta Things To Sing About Iâ? ve got a whole…
A Word or Two to Mary A word or two to Mary Please write a letter for…
Able Bodied Man I'm calling from the station and I haven't got much…
Above and Beyond Well I'll give you love that's above and beyond the…
Act Naturally They're a gonna put me in the movies they're gonna…
Adios Amigo Adios amigo, adios my friend The road we have travelled has…
Afraid Of Losing You Again Sometimes I want to throw my arms around you Then I…
After All These Years My darling come to me sit you down easily And rest…
After All This Time After all this time I should be over you I…
After Me After You After you I could never love again Darlin' your love would…
All His Children When you're standing alone With the mountains and the sea Wh…
All I Have To Offer You Before you take another step there's something you should kn…
Along the Mississippi When we were young along the Mississippi life was never…
Always on My Mind Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could…
Am I Losing You Am I Loosing you? Are my fears coming true? How I…
Amazing Love When she wakes up this morning and turns to kiss…
America The Great Washington and Jefferson I wonder what they'd say If they ca…
Amy's Eyes Amy left her crayons on the table yesterday So I called…
Angel Band My latest sun is sinking fast My race is nearly run My…
Another I Love You Kind of Day Wake up and open your eyes breakfast's on and the…
Anywhere There are places to go where the cold north wind…
Baby Is Gone The world goes around and the young men get old The…
Back to Country Roads I can see the sadness in your eyes knowing that…
Banks of the Ohio (spoken) I asked my love to take a walk Just to walk…
Before I Met You I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time…
Before the Next Teardrop Falls I'll be there before the next teardrop falls If he brings…
Behind Closed Doors My baby makes me proud, Lord don't she make me…
Best Banjo Picker I didn't think too much about books and schoolin' Cause ther…
Best There Is Chuck Berry and Man O War A Derby winner and a…
Billy Bayou Back about eighteen hundred and some a Louisiana couple had…
Blue Boy Blue-ue-ue boy that's what they ca-a-all me 'Cause I'm so lo…
Blue Ridge Mountains Turnin Green Blue Ridge Mountains turning green Wanna go home again to Se…
Blue Side of Lonesome I'm Calling To Tell You It's Over Yes Darling You're Now…
Brand New Bed of Roses I'm looking for a brand new bed of roses A love…
Burgers & Fries Burgers and fries and cherry pies It was simple and good…
Busted The bills are all due and my baby need shoes…
But I Do I don't know why I love you but I do I…
Christmas and Love I live in a three-room shack It's not much to see No…
Christmas in My Home Town There's a white Christmas in my hometown Where the streets a…
Church In The Wildwood There's a church in the valley by the wildwood No lovelier…
Come on Home and Sing the Blues to Daddy Well I hear that your new romance has faded just…
Come on in and Let Me Love You I've been on my way to you for a long…
Comfort of Her Wings There's a place they call The Bottom, And friends! I've been…
Comin' Down With Love My mind has been in a constant burl since the…
Cotton Fields When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would…
Country Music Sometimes I feel like there's just no way To face another…
Crystal Chandelier My baby makes me proud, Lord don't she make me…
Crystal Chandeliers Oh, the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your…
Day the World Stood Still One day you came along And spoke so tenderly You kissed me,…
Daydreams About Night Things I'm having daydreams about night things in the middle of…
Days of Our Lives Readin' magazines with your hair Up in curlers smokin' the l…
Deck the Halls Deck the halls with boughs of holly Fa la la la…
Detroit City I want to go home I want to go home…
Did You Think to Pray Hey, you left your room this morning Did you think to…
Did You Think to Pray? Hey, you left your room this morning Did you think to…
Distant Drums I hear the sound of distant drums, Far away, far away. And…
Does My Ring Hurt You Finger Does my ring hurt your finger when you go out…
Don Don't ya, don't ya, don't ya fight the feelings of…
Don't Fight the Feelin's of Love Don't ya don't ya don't ya fight the feelings of…
Don't Fight The Feeling Of Love Don't ya, don't ya, don't ya fight the feelings of…
Down On The Farm Looking back a hundred years On daughters and sons of the…
Easy Part's Over The easy part's over now The easy part's over now It's…
Even After Everything She's Done Yesterday tomorrow seemed a million years away But here it i…
Except For You Except for you I've never known what love is Or how it…
Fifteen Years Ago I saw a man today who said he talked to…
Folsom Prison Blues I hear the train a comin' it's rollin' round the…
Fools Fools never learn you play with fire and you gonna…
Footprints in the Sands of Time The strange lonely whistle of the distant movin' train Break…
For Today I surprised her at work today and Brought her a red…
Four Walls Out where the bright lights are glowing You're drawn like a…
Georgia Keeps Pulling on My Ring Georgia sweet sweet Georgia keeps pulling on my ring Most me…
Get up Off Your Good Intentions Harness that team and hitch it to the plow Get yourself…
Gone The day you walked away you left the hurt behind A…
Gone on the Other Hand Someday I think I'll take up thinking and try my…
Got Leavin On Her Mind She don't hold and kiss me like she did one…
Green It's good to touch the green, green grass of home The…
Green Green Grass of Home It's good to touch the green, green grass of home The…
Guess Things Happen That Way You ask me if I'll forget my baby I guess…
Guilty I've been accused convicted and condemned The trial's over a…
Guntersville Gazette Wasn't more than half a mile between the city limit…
Happiness of Having You The sun comes up and throws It's light into my window Catchi…
Happy Christmas Day Snowflakes fallin' softly quietly To the ground Everybody kn…
Happy Street HAPPY STREET WRITER BEN PETERS I was blue till I found you…
Have I Got Some Blues For You The one you love stopped by to see me today, Said…
He'll Have to Go Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone Let's…
Heaven Help Us All Heaven help the child who never had a home, Heaven help…
Heaven Watches Over Fools Like Me We married young and people said that I was still too…
Hello Darlin' Hello darlin' nice to see you it's been a long…
Help Me Make it Through the Night Take the ribbon from your hair Shake it loose and let…
Help Me Make It Through The Night - Live 'Here's a little song here that we recorded about 4…
Help Me Make It Throught The Night Take the ribbon from your hair Shake it loose and let…
Hickory Hollow Times & County News I was sitting on the sofa in my music row…
Honky Tonk Blues Well I left my home down on a rural route…
Hook in My Heart I'm just an ordinary average guy Sometimes a pretty thing ca…
Hope You're Feelin' Me No one could hold me, no one could control me But…
I And when it's one on one she's a different kind…
I Ain I picked last night in Tucson I sang 'em a…
I Came Straight to You Well all I've got is what I've got I can't act…
I Can I can feel the warmth of you against my skin Like…
I Can See the Lovin' in Your Eyes Lovin' you's the last thing I think of every night The…
I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me Tomorrow I'll …
I Can't Help It (I can't help it if I'm still in love with…
I Could Never Be Ashamed of You Everybody says you let me down I should be ashamed…
I Discovered You Before you take another step there's something you should kn…
I Don't See How I Can Love You Anymore I can feel the warmth of you against my skin Like…
I Don't Think She's In Love Anymore Well, I came in late again last night Really, it was…
I Feel the Country Callin' Me Sometimes when I take a little break My mind slips away…
i guess i'm crazy I guess I′m crazy for loving you You tell me many…
I Know One I don't know why I love you but I do I…
I Live You Before you take another step there's something you should kn…
I Love You Because I love you because you understand, dear Every single thing …
I Miss My Home Too many nights I've been awake We both so lonely, we…
I Think I'll Take a Walk I think I'll take a boat and sail the ocean…
I Threw Away the Rose Once I lived a life of wine and roses and…
I Want You Before you take another step there's something you should kn…
I Won't Come In Thought I'd stop by awhile and see you Just once more…
I Wonder Could I Live There Any More Have you ever been awakened by the crowing of a…
I Wonder Could I Live There Anymore Have you ever been awaken by the crowing of a…
I Wonder Couls I Live There Any More Have you ever been awakened by the crowing of a…
I'd Rather Love You If tonight should be our last night together I'm not…
I'll Be Leavin' Alone Yes, I'll buy you a drink If you'd like me to I…
I'll fly Away Some glad morning when this life is o'er I'll fly away To…
I'll Wander Back to You They say I'm like my daddy always on the roam I…
I'm a Lonesome Fugitive I'd like to settle down but they won't let me…
I'm Beginning To Believe My Own Lies I don't make the same old places that I used…
I'm Glad It Was You I was such a lonely man till You came and took…
I'm Gonna Change Everything Yeah I'm gonna change everything that holds A memory of you…
I'm Gonna Love Her On the Radio I'm gonna love her on the radio She's gonna hear me…
I'm Just Me Down at the railroad station there's people gettin' on Some …
I'm Learning to Love Her Last night I walked down that little country lane And a…
I'm Never Leaving You If we go should live hill forever I'll be there…
I'm Only Losin' Everything I Threw Away Mornin' lonely mornin' I feel so Lonesome raindrops fallin' …
I'm So Afraid of Losing You Sometimes I want to throw my arms around you Then I…
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hear that lonesome whippoorwill, he sounds too blue to fly T…
I've Just Found Another Reason For Loving You Somehow you know just what it Takes to please me Sometimes I…
If She Just Helps Me It may not make me tremble the soft touch of…
If You Had Only Taken the Time If you'd have only taken the time to tell me…
If You Should Come Back Today You'd stop at hundred and forty tears I forget the…
Im Just Me No one could hold me, no one could control me But…
Im So Afraid Of Losing You Again Sometimes I want to throw my arms around you Then I…
Image of Me The Yes I know she's the life of the party and…
In Love With Loving You (I can't help it if I'm still in love with…
In The Middle Of Nowhere They had meant for me one last Time to see my…
Instant Loneliness I watch it's three a.m. I know she's waitin' up…
Is Anybody Goin To San Antone Rain dripping off the brim of my hat It sure is…
Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone Rain dripping off the brim of my hat Sure is cold…
Is anybody going to San Antone Rain drippin' off the brim of my hat, It sure…
Is Anyone Goin' To San Antone Rain dripping off the brim of my hat Sure is cold…
Is Anyone Going To San Antone Rain dripping off the brim of my hat Is sure is…
Is It Really Over Is it really over Is this the end of the line? Don't…
It Oh the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so…
It Amazes Me Anytime the world is gettin' to me all I have…
It's All Right Couldn't tell my teacher my last name when I was…
It's Going To Take a Little Bit Longer Baby it's gonna take a little bit longer For me to…
It's Gonna Take A Little Bit Longer Baby, it's gonna take a little bit lo-onger For me to…
It's Gonna Take A Little Bit Longer Baby it's gonna take a little bit longer for me…
It's Just a Matter of Time Someday, someway You'll realize that you've been blind Yes d…
It's The Little Things The way you fix my tie in the morning and…
Its Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer Baby, it's gonna take a little bit lo-onger For me to…
Jeanie Norman It's been ten long and lonely years since I've been…
Just Between You & Me So I feel so blue sometimes I wanna die And so…
Just for the Love of It I remember walking with my daddy through His weathered field…
Kaw Liga Kaw-Liga Kaw-Liga was a wooden Indian standin' by the door H…
Kaw-Liga (Live) Kaw-Liga, the wooden Indian standin' by the door He fell in…
Kawliga Kaw-Liga Kaw-Liga was a wooden Indian standin' by the door H…
kiss a angel good morning Whenever I chance to meet some old friends on the…
Kiss an Angel Good Mornin When ever I chance to meet, some old friends on…
Kiss an Angel Good Mornin' Well me and Homer Jones and Big John Talley Had…
Kiss An Angel Good Morning When ever I chance to meet, old friends on the…
Kiss An Angel Good Morning - Live Whenever I chance to meet Some old friends on the street The…
Kiss An Angel Goodmornin' When ever I chance to meet, old friends on the…
Last Thing on My Mind The A lesson too late for the learning made of sand…
Let Me Have a Chance to Love You I've been on my way to you for a long…
Let Me Live Let me live again Let me live again A little taste of…
Let Me Live Again Let me live again let me live again [ steel ] A…
Let Me Live in the Light of His Love Let Him always, walk beside me Let Him take my, hand…
Let My Love In I'll stand by your side I'll always love you I'll give my…
Let The Chips Fall I'm finding that I'm spending most of my time Wondering wher…
Lie to Me (Harold Dorman - Wylie Gann) Oh, lie to me, say you…
Life Turned Her That Way If she seems cold and bitter I beg of you Just…
Little Drummer Boy Come, they told me pa-rum pum pum pum Our newborn King…
Looking At A Sure Thing I just pull the tread and unravel my life with…
Lord Build Me a Cabin in Glory Lord, Build Me A Cabin In Glory Many years I've been…
Louisiana Man At first mom and papa called their little boy Ned They…
Love Put a Song in My Heart Yes your love put a song put a song put…
Lovesick Blues I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with a girl, That's…
Lovin' Understandin' Man My baby changes like the weather one day she's warm…
Low Down Blues Lord I went to the doctor he took one look He…
Making up My Mind Oh the sun's gonna come up tomorrow And I'm gonna live…
Mama Don I've seen the big fish jumping mama I've heard crickets…
Mansion on the Hill I can see your mansion on the hill Tonight down here…
Maybe Love Will Save The Day Maybe love will save the day Let's count all the reasons…
Me & Bobby McGee Busted flat in Baton Rouge Waitin' for the train Feelin' nea…
Mem'Ries Mem'ries I've got a million of those mem'ries in my…
Miller's Cave Way down in the state of Georgia through the swamps…
Mind Your Own Business If the wife and I are fussin' brother that's our…
Miracles Music and My Wife What a woman my wife when I outlook on life She's…
Missin' You Well, I wake up every mornin' Throw some water on my…
Missing You I had you neatly tucked away way In the back of…
Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town One dusty street …
Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town [Chorus] In a Mississippi cotton pickin' delta town One dust…
Moanin' the Blues When my baby moved out and the blues moved in…
Moody Woman Well, it's Saturday night and I'm ready to roll, Sitting…
More And More More and more I'm forgetting the past More and more I'm livi…
More To Me Yes more to me than anything else I've ever known More…
Mountain Of Love Standing on the mountain looking down on a city The way…
My Eyes Can Only See As Far My Eyes Can Only See As Far As You My eyes…
My Love Is Deep My Love Is Wide My love is deep my love is wide you can't…
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy Tonight my head is bowed in sorrow I can't keep…
Never Been So Loved I'm no stranger to loving arms Well, I'm accustomed to lady…
Never More Than I He'll buy you lots of pretty things Fancy clothes and fancy…
Next to You I Like Me No one could hold me, no one could control me But…
Night Games When that neon sun comes up In the evening And that warm…
No One Could Ever Take Me From You Darling no one could ever take me from you I'll…
No Relief in Sight My mind goes to pieces And my loneliness increases Cause I n…
Nobody Home to Go Home To The neon lights are going out The barmaid's half asleep Soon…
Nothin' Left but Leavin' Tonight it's so cold the rain is fallin' but it's…
Nothing's Prettier Than Rose Is Nothing's prettier than Rose is she's the sunshine of my…
Now And Then Now and then if I could just see you just…
Now I Can Live Again When my baby left me she left trouble all around She…
O Holy Night O holy night! The stars are brightly shining, It is the…
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Oh little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee…
Oklahoma Morning Oh! On an early autumn day Freshness of the breeze brought t…
Old Photographs Here is one that we took one Sunday afternoon I…
On The Other Hand Someday I think I'll take up thinking and try my…
On The Southbound Well I woke up this morning when the cold Chicago…
Once Again The telephone rings and I tremble knowing what it means…
One Mile More Old beatup suitcase on the platform a train ticket in…
One of These Days One of these days, one of these days I'll spend more…
One on One Before you take another step There’s something you should …
One Time Tell me again how much you love me and that…
Pass Me By Would you look at what came Down the road today Wanting me…
Piroque Joe Down in Louisiana where the bayou blows Lives a little man…
Play Guitar Play See Play, guitar play Take me back To yes-terday G Gm let me…
Play, Guitar, Play (Conway Twitty) Play, guitar play Take me back to yesterday…
Playin' Around Now you've been playin' around Playin' around playin' around…
Please Help Me I'm Falling Please help me, I'm falling in love with you Close the…
Pretty House for Sale Well hello there come on in I'm expecting you my…
Ramblin Rose Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose Why you ramble, no one knows Wi…
Resting Place Many times our work seems endless As we la-bor in the…
Rhinestone Cowboy I've Been walkin' These streets so long Singin' the same old…
Roll on Mississippi Walkin' along, whistlin' a song Barefoot and fancy free A bi…
Sail Away Come lay down beside me love and close your troubled…
Sail Away Newbury Come lay down beside me love And close your troubled eyes Le…
San Antone Rain drippin' off the brim of my hat, It sure…
Santa and the Kids Christmas time is here again Like every year before We'll he…
Searching for the Morning Sun Standin' in a pouring rain on a cold Chicago day A…
She's As Close As I Can Get To Loving You Her hair should be a little darker And her eyes should…
She's Just An Old Love Turned Memory I phoned her today, an accidental mistake And her name slip…
She's Still Got a Hold on You So you're out there having fun and drinking with the…
She's Too Good To Be True Sometimes late at night I wake up dreaming I reach and…
Shes Too Good To Be True Sometimes late at night I wake up dreaming I reach and…
Shoulder to Cry On I came here because I knew I'd be welcome And because…
Shouldn't It Be Easier Than This A month ago, I walked out your door Said it wasn't…
Shutters And Boards Shutters and boards cover the windows of the house where…
Silent Night Silent night, holy night! All is calm, all is bright Round y…
Singin' a Song About Love Yes I keep singin' a song about love hummin' a…
Six Days on the Road Well I pulled outta Pittsburgh a rollin' down that Eastern…
Snakes Crawl At Night All te snakes crawl at night that's what they say When…
Someone I Can't Forget If I hurt long enough then I won't hurt the…
Someone Love You Honey I want to share your life Every minute, every day…
Special The only thing I really own is what you see…
Streets of Baltimore Sold the farm to take my woman where she longed…
Streets Of Gold I'm a western North Carolinean Made of stone and red place…
Sunshiny Day If I wake up in the morning when I look…
Sweet Promises (Promises sweet promises promises sweet promises) Sweet prom…
Take Care Of The Little Things Stranger livin' in my house I'm writing this letter to…
Tennessee Girl Well I left home at a crack of dawn just…
That's My Way Beside the cottonfield I was born underneath the tree was…
That's the Only Way Life's Good to Me Got the blues in Batton Rouge walked a mile or…
That's Why I Love You So Much You stood by me whenever times were bad and never…
The Ain't No Me Oh there ain't no green where There ain't no sun There ain't…
The Atlantic Coastal Line Everybody calls me Bo I got no money but I hold…
The Banks of the Ohio (spoken) I asked my love to take a walk Just to walk…
The Best in the World I know she's gonna get me back when I get…
The Chain Of Love He was driving home one evening In his beat up Pontiac When…
The Choices She Made She didn't have to marry down so far [Incomprehensible] wit…
The Church in the Wildwood There's a church in the valley by the wildwood No lovelier…
The Day The World Stood Still One day you came along And spoke so tenderly You kissed me,…
The Days of Sand and Shovels When I noticed her the first time I was outside…
The Easy Part The easy part's over now The easy part's over now It's…
The First Christmas Morn A star in the East leading Wise Men to Him He…
The Happiness Of Having You The sun comes up and throws it's light into my…
The Hardest Part Of Livin's Loving Me Yes you're the hardest part of livin's loving me Must be…
The Hunger They said in her younger days her beauty was enough…
The Image of Me Yes I know she's the life of the party and…
The Last Thing on My Mind A lesson too late for the learning made of sand…
The Little Folks (Jack Clement) We've decided we can't work it out we migh…
The Man I Used To Be I'm sure you've seen me along the highway sleeping bag…
The More I Do Have you ever been awakened by the crowing of a…
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World First Released: 1973 Hey. Did you happen to see the most…
The Power Of Love Love didn't have much to work with When it got a…
The Rose Is For Today I surprised her at work today and Brought her a red…
The Snakes Crawl at Night All te snakes crawl at night that's what they say When…
The Thought of Losing You You look good to me every morning over coffee even…
The Top of the World How's the view from the top of the world I…
Then Who Am I If he's the one that's always on your mind the…
There Ain't No Me Oh there ain't no green where There ain't no sun There ain't…
There Goes My Everything (Dallas Frazier) There goes my only possession There goe…
There's a Heartache Sometimes they ask me if I'm really happy now I say sure…
There's a Little Bit of Hank in Me Well Hank I never met you but I sure heard…
Theres a Heartache Sometimes they ask me if I'm really happy now I say sure…
They Stood In Silent Prayer The little lambs were standing there Beside the holy babe Th…
Things Are Looking Up I just pull the tread and unravel my life with…
This Bed's Not Big Enough Been so many little ways you let me know He's still…
This Highway Leads to Glory I wanna share your life Every minute, every day and night An…
This Is My Year for Mexico I no longer notice if you're wearing perfume I quit…
Through the Years Seems like only yesterday we fell in love just barely…
Time I hear they're hiring men in Oklahoma And I've been blessed…
Time Out for Jesus Take time out for Jesus He took time for you! Take…
To Have and to Hold To have and to hold But we don't hold each other…
Today Is That Tomorrow You took her off so many times always had your…
Too Good To Be True Sometimes late at night I wake up dreaming I reach and…
Too Hard to Say I'm Sorry Just two words were all that she would ask of…
Trapped in an Old Country Song Did you ever just feel like a movie Or a book…
Walk on By If I see you tomorrow on some street in town Pardon…
Walls Out where the bright lights are glowing You're drawn like a…
Was It All Worth Losing You Well I finally got the one I thought I wanted…
We Could If anyone could find the joy that true love brings…
We had All The Good Things Going It wasn't very long ago we had a love few…
We Need Lovin' We need lovin' kissin' and a huggin' Lots a lovin' gonna…
Welcome to My World Welcome to my world won't you come on in Miracles I…
What Money Can't Buy To watch the rain fall the fields and the valleys…
When I Stop Leaving How do some folks stay in love like a honeymoon…
When the Train Comes In Another lonely day is almost gone the sun's going down…
Where Do I Put Her Memory I've taken down all of her pictures I've cleaned out all…
Where Was I I've taken down all of her pictures I've cleaned out all…
Which Way Do We Go Which way do we go now you and I should…
Whispering Hope Soft as a voice of an angel Breathing a lesson unheard Hope…
Whole Lotta Things to Sing About [Chorus:] I've got a whole lot of things to sing about I've…
Whose Arms Are You in Tonight Whose arms are you in tonight darling is it someone…
Why Baby Why Tell me why baby, why baby, why baby why You make…
Why Didn't I Think of That I hear your new love sends you pretty something different…
Why Don't You Love Me Well why don't you love me like you used to…
Wings Of A Dove On the wings of a snow white dove He sends…
Wonder Could I Live There Anymore Have you ever been awaken by the crowing of a…
Yonder Comes a Sucker Railroad steamboat river and cannal yonder comes a sucker an…
You Almost Slipped My Mind You Almost Slipped My Mind She walked right up to…
You Can Tell the World (Johnny Mathis) Tonight I'm farther from your arms than e…
You Can't Sit Still Now you may not feel like dancing Or getting up at…
You Don't Belong Yesterday you smiled and my world stopped its turning All th…
You Never Gave Up on Me Through the years with you I have often fallen I've been…
You Touched My Life You touched my life and made my heart awaken You brought…
You Win Again The news is out all over town that you've been…
You'll Still be the One When other arms have held me close and new lips…
You're My Jamaica Every day I read ads in the paper Saying come to…
You're So Good When You're Bad You're a lady, you're an angel, Bringin' sunshine to my…
You're Still the Only One I'll Ever Love Time has passed and things have changed You've gone your way…
You're The Woman Behind Everything I was a man without reasons Until I met a special…
You're Wanting Me to Stop Loving You I have done everything I can to please you And the…
You've Got to Stand for Something Now Daddy didn't like trouble, but if it came along Everyone…
Your Used to Be I'm sure you've seen me along the highway sleeping bag…
Youre So Good When Youre Bad You're a lady, you're an angel, Bringin' sunshine to my…
Youve Got to Stand for Something Now daddy didn't like trouble If it came along Every one tha…