SLAVE LOVER 

Well, I just get in my slippers and I light up my pipe
Sit down in my easy chair and fill the thing up right
I hear somebody holler and I jump to my feet
Go take out the garbage or you're gonna hear from me
Slave lover, umm umm, slave lover
She'd tell me not to wait, don't you hesitate
Slave lover, that's what I am.

She sent me upstairs, downstair looking for her brother
Uptown, downtown looking for her mother
People think I'm buggy 'cause I'm lost like a lamb
Won't you tell me baby, who do you think I am
Slave lover, umm umm, slave lover.
She treats me so unfair, she says that I'm a square
Slave lover, that's what I am.

--- Instrumental ---

Well, I go turn out the light and then I jump in bed
I got to get up early 'cause that's what she said
I go to church on Sunday and I hurry home fast
I just get through the door and she says take out the
trash
Slave lover, umm umm, slave lover
She tells me not to wait, don't you hesitate
Slave lover, that's what I am.

She sent me upstairs, downstair looking for her brother
Uptown, downtown looking for her mother
People think I'm buggy 'cause I'm lost like a lamb
Won't you tell me baby, who do you think I am
Slave lover, umm umm, slave lover
She treats me so unfair, she says that I'm a square
Slave lover, that's what I am.

Slave lover that's what I am
Slave lover that's what I am
Slave lover that's what I am
Slave lover that's what I am...

SLOW BURNING FIRE 

(George)
My shoulder still burns
Where you touched me last night
You hugged me and walked out the door
We've been pretending
That we're only friends
But tonight we can feel something more.

(Both)
Just being around you
Is making me warm
One touch and I know that I'll
Melt in your arms
There's no way to stop
This burning desire
'Cause there's nothing as hot as a
Slow burning fire.

(Tammy)
You look in my eyes
Just a little too long
Before I can look away
But lately I've caught you
Staring at me
With a new kind of look on your face.

(Both)
Just being around you
Is making me warm
One touch and I know that I'll
Melt in your arms
There's no way to stop
This burning desire
'Cause there's nothing as hot as a
Slow burning fire.

(Both)
Just being around you
Is making me warm
One touch and I know that I'll
Melt in your arms
There's no way to stop
This burning desire
'Cause there's nothing as hot as a
Slow burning fire.

SMACK DAB 

Pick me a town in any clime
Where people like a rockin' time
And stay awake both day and night
Till everybody's feelin' right.

Then throw me smack dab in the middle
I wanna be Smack dab in the middle
Ah smack dab in the middle boys now
So I can rock and roll to satisfy my soul.

Ten Cadillacs and diamond mill
Ten suits of clothes to dress to kill
A ten room house some Bar BQ
And fifty chicks not over twenty-two.

Then throw me smack dab in the middle
I wanna be Smack dab in the middle
Ah smack dab in the middle boys now
So I can rock and roll to satisfy my soul.

[ guitar ] One hundred beds with chorus girls
A street that's paved with natural pearls
A wagon load of bonds and stocks
Then open up the door at Fort Knox.

Then throw me smack dab in the middle
I wanna be Smack dab in the middle
Ah smack dab in the middle boys now
So I can rock and roll to satisfy my soul.

A lot of bread and gangs of meat
Oodles of butter and somethin' sweet
Gallons of beer to wash it down
Bicarbonated soda by the pound.

Then throw me smack dab in the middle
I wanna be Smack dab in the middle
Ah smack dab in the middle boys now
So I can rock and roll to satisfy my soul.

Yeah, smack dab in the middle
I wanna be Smack dab in the middle
Ah smack dab in the middle boys now
So I can rock and roll to satisfy my soul...

SMALL TIME LABORING MAN 

A dollar an hour, eight hours a day
Will soon make a young man wither away
I work for my family with my wrinkled hands
For I'm a small time laboring man.

Six long days each week I toil and I sweat
But on Sunday my family gives me comfort and rest
Then again Monday morning I'll make tracks in the sand
For I'm a small time laboring man.

I'm a small time laboring man
Fighting against trying as hard as I can
I fight for my country with my caloused hands
For I'm a small time laboring man.

Twelve long months each year my life stays the same
Making my honest dollar in the sun, snow and rain
No, you don't see my family on the starvation plan
For I'm a small time laboring man...

SMALL Y'ALL 

Honey, you think you've got an attitude
So you treat him just a liitle to loose
Well, buddy you think she's a little to cold
So you act like a two year old.

Don't it make you feel low, Joe
Don't it make you feel mean. Gene
Don't it make you feel ashamed of yourself
Don't it make you feel small y'all?

Boy you say something bad about her brother
And girl you say something mean about his mother
And tempers flare and insults fly
And you're both a-wantin' to die.

Don't you feel like a jerk, Kirk
Don't you feel like a ninny, Jim
Don't it make you ashamed of yourself
Don't it make you feel small y'all?

Lady you say you don't love him no more
And mister you kicked down the bedroom door
He called you names you never heard before
And now it's a full scale war.

Don't it make you feel a-crazy, baby
Don't it make you feel mentally ill, Phil
Don't it make you ashamed of yourself
Don't it make you feel small y'all?

--- Instrumental ---

Six o'clock, eight o'clock, nine o'clock, ten
The neighbors all know that you're at it again
And two little kids just a few feet away
Hear every word you say.

Don't it make you feel bad, dad
Don't it make you feel wrong, mom
Don't it make you ashamed of yourself
Don't it make you feel small y'all.

Don't it make you ashamed of yourself
Don't it make you feel small, y'all?...

SOFTLY AND TENDERLY 

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling calling for you and for me
See on the portal he's waiting and watching watching for you and for me
Come home come home ye who are weary come home
Earnestly tenderly Jesus is calling calling oh sinner come home
Oh for the wonderful love he has promised promised for you and for me
Though we have sinn'd he has mercy and pardon pardon for you and for me
Come home come home ye who are weary come home
Earnestly tenderly Jesus is calling, calling oh sinner come home
Oh for the wonderful love he has promised, promised for you and for me
Though we have sinn'd he has mercy and pardon, pardon for you and for me

SOLDIER'S LAST LETTER 

When the postman delivered the letter
Well, it filled her old heart full of joy
But she din't know 'til she read the inside
It was the last one from her darling boy

"Dear Mom," was the way that it started
"I miss you so much," it went on
"And, Mom, I didn't know that I loved you so
But I'll prove it when this war is won"

"I'm writing this down in a trench, Mom
So don't scold if it isn't so neat
For you know as you did, when I was a kid
And would come home with mud on my feet"

"Well, the captain just gave us our orders
And mom we will carry them through
I'll finish this letter the first chance I get
But for now I'll just say I love you"

Then the mother's old hands began to tremble
As she fought against tears in her eyes
For they came unashamed, there was no name
And she knew that her darlin' had died

That night as she knelt down by her bedside
She prayed, "Lord above, hear my plea
Protect all the sons who are fighting tonight
And dear God keep America free"

SOLID AS A ROCK 

This old road of love ain't for Sunday drivers
There's very few survivors in a would of hit and run
But we cared enough to hold on to each other
We pulled the load together and look how far we've come.

Our love is solid as a rock, like the moon and stars
We built our love to last like Henry Ford built cars
Not one that falls apart after once around the block
Our love is solid as a rock.

--- Instrumental ---

Throught the years we've learned good things don't come
easy
Lots of little treasures and nothing's ever free
All the tears of time ain't been no bed of roses
But we're about as close as two heart could ever be.

Our love is solid as a rock, like the moon and stars
We built our love to last like Henry Ford built cars
Not one that falls apart after once around the block
Our love is solid as a rock.

Our love is solid as a rock, like the moon and stars
We built our love to last like Henry Ford built cars
Not one that falls apart after once around the block
Our love is solid as a rock.

Our love is solid as a rock, like the moon and stars
We built our love to last like Henry Ford built cars

SOMEBODY ALWAYS PAINTS THE WALL 

If my old truck was a horse I'd have to shoot it
Lord, the day my ship came in I was waiting for a train
Everytime I get a grip I always lose it
I can't enjoy the sunshine for the rain.

Hon., you know I'm always saying I'm sorry
But you stand by me through it all
Seems like everytime I make my mark
Somebody always paints the wall.

Everytime I think I'm off and running
I'm barely up to a crawl
Everytime I get a leg up on the ladder of success
I shake and fall.

Back last week down at the factory
I was up for a promotion
And the bosses little brother got the call
Seems like everytime I make my mark
Somebody always paints the wall.

--- Instrumental ---

If my old truck was a horse I'd have to shoot it
Lord, the day my ship came in I was waiting for a train
Everytime I get some news there's nothing to it
You're my only pleasure from the pain.

Hon., you know I'm always saying I'm sorry
But you stand by me through it all
Seems like everytime I make my mark
Somebody always paints the wall.

Seems like everytime I make my mark
Somebody always paints the wall...

SOMEBODY WANTS ME OUT OF THE WAY 

Somebody keeps paying my bar tab
But the bartender won't tell me who
He gives me six cold ones, to go when he closes
And slips me a dollar or two.

My woman is keeping me busy
And I'm afraid to go ask her why
But the more I keep drinking
The more I keep thinking
There's somebody new in her life.

Chorus:
Somebody wants me out of the way
And I bet I'll find out when I go home today
Here comes the waitress with a loaded down tray
Somebody wants me out of the way.

Now my woman is under suspicion
And all I can see in my mind
It's two cheating lovers who love under cover
And the covers they're under is mine.

Chorus:
Somebody wants me out of the way
And I bet I'll find out when I go home today
Here come the waitress with a loaded down tray
Somebody wants me out of the way.

Somebody wants me out of the way...