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V1: Three years old and my sundress on
Golden Book tucked up under my arm
When I suddenly heard that sound
Filled the valley and shook the ground
My body was frozen
Cups and saucers started to shake
Fear on the horizon
Run and hide before it’s too late
V2: One morning I stood still
Engine rumbling over the hill
Held my breath and I closed my eyes
Feared the worst but to my surprise
A loud whistle was blowin’
Opened my eyes and what did I see?
Right there in my backyard
That conductor smiling at me
CH: Every Time a Train Goes By
A Train Goes By, my confidence grows
I can face any old whistle that blows
Every Time a Train Goes – By
CH2: Every Time a Train Goes By
A Train Goes By, my confidence grows
I can face any old whistle that blows
Every Time a Train Goes
Every Time a Train Goes By
A Train Goes By, my confidence grows
I can face any old whistle that blows
Every Time a Train Goes By
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Somebody's Daughter
03:58
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V1: Every girl is Somebody’s Daughter
Every boy is somebody’s son
There may be something they’re chasing
Or trying to outrun, what they’ve done
So be kind to everybody’s daughter
And everybody’s son
V2: Every day you’ll hear someone laughing
Every day you’ll see someone cry
You may say hello to a stranger
Or tell a friend goodbye, a sad goodbye
Try to laugh with everyone who’s laughing
And cry with those who cry
BR: We try our best to keep our tears out of view
But there are shadows that we’re all walking through
So put some tenderness in all that you do
All you do
V3: In a world that keeps moving faster
On a planet that circles the sun
We all get lost on the journey
Forget where we come from, everyone
So remember you’re everybody’s daughter
And everybody’s son
Everybody’s daughter, everybody’s daughter, everybody’s daughter
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V1: Life is like a candle
It burns out way too fast
And we’ve had all we can handle
So tonight let’s just dance
CH: And who knows what we might find
If we surrender heart and mind
Stay here with me, make this moment last
And let’s just Leave the Past in the Past
V2: We can move the chairs from the kitchen
Make our own dance floor
Play the best love songs ever written
‘Til our hearts can take no more
CH: And who knows what we might find
If we surrender heart and mind
Stay here with me, make this moment last
And let’s just Leave the Past in the Past
BR: There’s no future in what’s gone on before
So, let’s not give our past one minute more
CH: And who knows what we might find
If we surrender heart and mind
Stay here with me, make this moment last
And who knows what we might find
If we surrender heart and mind
Just stay with me, make this moment last
And let’s just Leave the Past in the Past
Adlibs: Leave it in the past, Darling, leave it in the past
And let’s just dance, Honey, that’s all that I ask
Who – oo - oo, whoa – whoa – oh – oh – oh - oh
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A Right Turn
03:28
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V1: Every road I’ve gone down
Has come to a dead end, I’d have to turn around
But there was always a lesson to learn
Now I’ve finally made A Right Turn
CH: Just when I thought my heart was all done
Woke up one day to find that certain one
That makes me laugh, makes me come back alive
Now I realize it was worth every long, hard mile
V2: Caught a wayward wind everywhere I’d go
But I can’t say I took a wrong road
‘Cause every lost highway, every reckless curve
Has led me to this Right Turn
CH: Just when I thought my heart was all done
Woke up one day to find that certain one
That makes me laugh, makes me come back alive
Now I realize it was worth every long, hard mile
V3: After all the rain this old heart’s been in
Wouldn’t change a thing, I’d do it all again
There’s no going back to the way things were
‘Cause I know I’ve made A Right Turn
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All In The Family
04:01
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V1: That’s your Grandfather and me
On the day I became his bride
With uncles and cousins and aunts
Homemade biscuits and chicken fried
The recipe…
It's All In the Family
V2: There’s my Mom when we were kids
Hanging laundry out in the yard
If she cried she kept it hid
So we never knew times were hard
She’d say - to me
It’s All In the Family
BR1: You can run but you cannot hide
The Truth inside
It’s stronger than an ocean tide
V3: Here’s a boy you’ll never know
He’d be sixty, my brother Jim
Every time the whiskey flowed
It would steal away a part of him
Will we break free?
It’s All In the Family
BR2: You can run, you can change your name
You’re still the same
A part of an Eternal Flame
V4: I can hear your mother’s voice
See your father there in your smile
Glad you’ll be wearing my dress
When he’s walking you down the aisle
This love you see is All In the Family
This love you see is All In the Family
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Immigrant Shoes
04:10
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CH: One old ship in the harbor
One new flag in the air
Seven weeks on the water
We’re finally there
Said goodbye to the Old World
Say hello to the New
We’ll dance to a new song
In these Immigrant Shoes
V1: Feet shuffle in rhythm
As we make our way to the shore
By the lamp lighting our path through
The Golden Door
Poor, tired and hungry
When we left those fields of stone
Now I hear my heart whisper,
“Welcome home!”
CH2: One old ship in the harbor
One new flag in the air
Seven weeks on the water
We’re finally there
Said goodbye to the Old World
Say hello to the New
We’ll dance to a new song
In these Immigrant Shoes
(Instrumental)
V2: Long lines on the island
Every language under the sun
All straining to hear their
Mother Tongue
All that we could carry
In our hands and over our backs
Pots, pans, and hand-me-downs
And photographs
CH3: One old ship in the harbor
One new flag in the air
Seven weeks on the water
We’re finally there
Said goodbye to the Old World
Say hello to the New
We’ll dance to a new song
In these Immigrant Shoes
(Instrumental)
BR: What was far away is in front of me
What was once a dream came true
V3: Quinn picks up his fiddle
And a stranger’s playing the spoons
Dresses swirling in circles
To familiar tunes
Out on the horizon
There’s a new mysterious land
On a couple acres of heaven
We’ll make our stand
CH4: One old ship in the harbor
One new flag in the air
Seven weeks on the water
We’re finally there
Said goodbye to the Old World
Say hello to the New
We’ll dance to a new song
In these Immigrant Shoes
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Cumberland Rose
05:22
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CH: (Sung a cappella):
They call her Cumberland Rose
Where the Cumberland flows
And the sound of her voice lingers on
Oh, the river valley rings
When her broken heart sings
For the love of sweet Cumberland Rose
V1: There’s a bitter wind blowin’ off the lonesome plateau
And the sad song it carries is a song they all know
Now the melody mingles with the mockingbird’s cry
And the woman who’s singing has a tear in her eye
(Repeat CH)
V2: It’s a question she’s asking of the angels above
Oh, why have they taken her innocent love
Now her melody mingles with the mournin’ dove’s sigh
And the water that ripples in its endless goodbye
(Repeat CH & instrumental)
V3: There are two shadows standing in that mountain moonlight
Where a husband’s consoling his grieving young wife
There’s a cradle between them lying empty and bare
As her lullaby echoes in the darkness somewhere
(Repeat CH & tag)
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Hope's Too Hard
03:17
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V1: I’ve been chattering all night long
Like a crane or a swallow on and on
I’ve lost my voice with all this cryin’
And my will to sing
CH: Hope’s Too Hard and I’m too weak
I don’t know if I can keep
Holding on beyond my reach
Love could you please sing for me?
V2: If I could I’d fly away
Off into the light of day
But I can’t seem to find the strength
To even lift my wings
CH: Hope’s Too Hard and I’m too weak
I don’t know if I can keep
Holding on beyond my reach
Love could you please carry me?
(Instrumental turn around)
V3: I wish I could see beyond
Far beyond the far horizon
But my eyes are tired from looking up
And mourning like a dove
CH: Hope’s Too Hard and I’m too weak
I don’t know if I can keep
Holding on beyond my reach
Love please don’t let go of me
Hope’s Too Hard and I’m too weak
I don’t know if I can keep
Holding on beyond my reach
Love please don’t let go of me
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V1: You can't appreciate the ocean if you've never seen it
Or felt the power of the waves if you've only dreamed it
You'll never see the view from the top if you never climb up
So take a chance and jump on in
Who knows where you'll wind up?
CH: Whoa-ooo, I Didn't Know What I Was Missing
Till something more than real
I never dreamed I'd feel
Got my attention
What a sweet surprise
To find a love that I never knew existed
Whoa-ooo, I Didn't Know What I Was Missing
V2: What I thought was love forevermore was just imitation
But a whole lot of nothing much is what I've been chasing
What you fear will always hold you back until you face it
You only live this life one time
So baby, don't waste it
CH2: Whoa-ooo, I Didn't Know What I Was Missing
Till something more than real
I never dreamed I'd feel
Got my attention
What a sweet surprise
To find a love that I never knew existed
Whoa-ooo, I Didn't Know What I Was Missing
(Instrumental)
CH3: Whoa-ooo, I Didn't Know What I Was Missing
Till something more than real
I never dreamed I'd feel
Got my attention
What a sweet surprise
To find a love that I never knew existed
Whoa-ooo, I Didn't Know What I Was Missing
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Here Lately
03:30
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V1: Here Lately, I’m not in a hurry like I used to be
And lately, it don’t take half as much to satisfy me
CH: Just waking up is more than enough
Right here is where I want to be
And for a change I’m learning how to love myself
Here Lately
V2: Here Lately, I feel more like me than I’ve ever been
And lately, life is like a dream and I’m a kid again
CH: Just waking up is more than enough
Right here is where I want to be
And for a change I’m learning how to love myself
Here Lately
BR: This long, hard road that we’ve been on
Broke my heart but it’s made me strong
V3: Here Lately, I’m not living in the past or drowning in regret
And lately, I’m finding what I give’s exactly what I get
CH: Just waking up is more than enough
Right here is where I want to be
And for a change I’m learning how to love myself
Here Lately
(Repeat CH)
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Do Not Cry For Me
04:33
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V1: When I look in the mirror
Of this life I have lived
I can see things oh, so clearly
Though my eyesight may be dim
Friends and family gather ‘round me
For the end now is near
In the light a voice is calling
But there’s nothing that I fear
CH1: Do Not Cry For Me, my darling
It is time; my work is through
I’ll be near to you, my darling
Ever watching over you
I’ll be closer than the sunlight
Lying soft on your skin
For this love has no beginning
Nor will it ever end
V2: In the full bloom of summer
In the first blush of spring
You will feel me all around you
I will live in everything
There was nothing more precious
Than the love that you gave
It’s your love I am made of
That will live beyond my grave
CH2: Do Not Cry For Me, my darling
It is time; my work is through
I’ll be near to you, my darling
Ever watching over you
I’ll be closer than the sunlight
Lying soft on your skin
For this love has no beginning
Nor will it ever end
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Sylvia Nashville, Tennessee
Signed to RCA Records from 1979-87, Sylvia released five albums with a dozen #1 and Top Ten hits, sold over four million records, and won multiple awards including the ACM’s Female Vocalist of the Year and Billboard’s #1 Country Female Artist. Since her RCA days, she’s released five albums on her own label, Red Pony Records, and is set to release “Nature Child – A Dreamer’s Journey” in 2022. ... more
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