1 Baby Please Don't Leave Me Today 2:12
2 Can't Sit And Watch Little Susie Laugh
Electric Guitar – Mac Gayden
3:25
3 John King's Fair
Bass – Jim Colvard*
2:50
4 Belle
Vocals – Bob Dudek
1:41
5 An Overnight Guest 3:32
6 Nobody's Here To Help Me Cry 2:47
7 And When She Smiles 2:28
8 Paint And Powder Ladies No. 2
Electric Guitar – Mac Gayden
1:50
9 Fantasy Child 2:32
10 My Baby Left Me
Vocals – Bob Dudek
Written-By – Arthur Crudup*
2:05
11 Don't Ask Me How Or Why 3:25
12 Mare, Take Me Home 3:26
Bonus Tracks
13 C'mon If You're Comin'
Written-By – Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry*
2:21
14 Ain't No Woman Finer Lookin' 3:19
15 Goin' On Back To Indiana 2:57
Bass – Al Lepak, Jr.*
Co-producer [Associate Producer] – David Wilkes, Jack Lothrop
Design – Jules Halfant
Drums – Bob Dudek
Engineer – Ed Friedner, Jerry Bradley
Mixed By – Jack Lothrop
Organ, Resonator Guitar [Dobro], Harmonica, Vibraphone [Vibes] – Charlie McCoy
Percussion – Martin Yakaitis
Photography By – Joel Brodsky
Piano – David Briggs (2)
Producer – Maynard Solomon
Steel Guitar – Weldon Myrick
Vocals, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Al Anderson (2)
Written-By – Alan C. Anderson*
2 Can't Sit And Watch Little Susie Laugh
Electric Guitar – Mac Gayden
3:25
3 John King's Fair
Bass – Jim Colvard*
2:50
4 Belle
Vocals – Bob Dudek
1:41
5 An Overnight Guest 3:32
6 Nobody's Here To Help Me Cry 2:47
7 And When She Smiles 2:28
8 Paint And Powder Ladies No. 2
Electric Guitar – Mac Gayden
1:50
9 Fantasy Child 2:32
10 My Baby Left Me
Vocals – Bob Dudek
Written-By – Arthur Crudup*
2:05
11 Don't Ask Me How Or Why 3:25
12 Mare, Take Me Home 3:26
Bonus Tracks
13 C'mon If You're Comin'
Written-By – Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry*
2:21
14 Ain't No Woman Finer Lookin' 3:19
15 Goin' On Back To Indiana 2:57
Bass – Al Lepak, Jr.*
Co-producer [Associate Producer] – David Wilkes, Jack Lothrop
Design – Jules Halfant
Drums – Bob Dudek
Engineer – Ed Friedner, Jerry Bradley
Mixed By – Jack Lothrop
Organ, Resonator Guitar [Dobro], Harmonica, Vibraphone [Vibes] – Charlie McCoy
Percussion – Martin Yakaitis
Photography By – Joel Brodsky
Piano – David Briggs (2)
Producer – Maynard Solomon
Steel Guitar – Weldon Myrick
Vocals, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Al Anderson (2)
Written-By – Alan C. Anderson*
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MusicTranscript
00:00I am one who really finds it Hard to say the things I'd really like to say
00:11Up on one day, down another Seems like all I ever do is feel that way
00:19Baby, please don't leave me today
00:24There's so much I want to tell you But I couldn't bring myself to talk to you
00:32Asking so much here inside me Torn between the feelings in my mind for you
00:39Baby, please don't leave me today
00:45I find myself with all these questions
00:53But all the answers are not reasons
01:02Sometimes I just feel like crying Just to ease the tension here inside me now
01:09Please just stay a little longer You could try and help me work this out somehow
01:17Baby, please don't leave me today
01:23I find myself with all these questions
01:30But all the answers are not reasons
01:39I am one who really finds it Hard to say the things I'd really like to say
01:47Up on one day, down another Seems like all I ever do is feel that way
01:54I guess things just happen that way
02:00Baby, please don't leave me today
02:18Why, why, why did you have to leave me, baby?
02:26Why, why, why did you have to leave me, baby?
02:32Why, why, why did you have to leave me, baby?
02:38Lonely every night in the pale moonlight Lonely cause I can't see wrong from right
02:44Lonely cause I can't sit and watch little Zuzu dance
02:52Why, why, why did you have to say you're sorry?
02:58Why, why, why did you have to say you're sorry?
03:04Why, why, why did you have to say you're sorry?
03:09Lonely every night in the pale moonlight Lonely cause I can't see wrong from right
03:15Lonely cause I can't sit and watch little Zuzu dance
03:39Why, why, why did you have to leave me crying?
03:55Why, why, why did you have to leave me crying?
04:01Why, why, why did you have to leave me crying?
04:07Why, why, why did you have to leave me crying?
04:12Now I'm crying every night in the pale moonlight
04:15I'm crying cause I can't see wrong from right
04:18Crying cause I can't sit and watch little Zuzu dance
04:26High, high, I get high every time I see you
04:31I get stoned, stoned, stoned, stoned, stoned
04:35Stoned every night cause I can't believe it
04:38High, high, high every time I see you
04:43And I'm stoned every night in the pale moonlight
04:46Stoned cause I can't see wrong from right
04:49Stoned cause I can't sit and watch little Zuzu dance
04:53Why, why, why did you have to leave me baby?
05:04Why, why, why did you have to leave me baby?
05:09Why, why, why did you have to leave me baby?
05:15Lonely every night in the pale moonlight
05:18Lonely cause I can't see wrong from right
05:21Lonely cause I can't sit and watch little Zuzu dance
05:29Little Zuzu dance
05:32Little Zuzu dance
05:49Look in the window of John King's Fair
05:54His soul and his fortune is for sale there
06:00You can buy his fortune for thirty cents
06:03And his soul he'll ask for more
06:06Cause that's all he's got is his aging soul
06:09And a forty euro rocking chair
06:12But you can't take it with you where you're going John
06:15You can't take it with you where you're going home
06:18You can't take it with you where you're going John
06:21So you better leave it to your family
06:25Look in the window of John King's Fair
06:31His mother and father are buried there
06:37Well they sold their fortunes for thirty cents
06:40And their souls they asked for more
06:43And now all they got is their aging souls
06:46Cause they never had a rocking chair
06:49But you can't take it with you where you're going John
06:52You can't take it with you where you're going home
06:55You can't take it with you where you're going John
06:58So you better leave it to your family
07:22. . .
07:40Look in the window of John King's Fair
07:45His soul and his fortune is for sale there
07:51And he thinks that heaven's a place to see
07:54Where all the good kings go
07:57And he's selling out everything he owns
08:00But I think there's something you should know
08:03Cause you can't take it with you where you're going John
08:06You can't take it with you where you're going home
08:09You can't take it with you where you're going John
08:12So you better leave it to your family
08:17Bye-bye John
08:20Bye-bye John
08:23Bye-bye John
08:26Bye-bye John
08:40Belle
08:42Belle don't you know what you're doing
08:46You turned our love into ruin na-na-na
08:49And I can't believe you'd do this to me
08:52Well, I just don't know what I'd do without you
08:56Belle
09:00Belle
09:02Flowers surrounding your hollow
09:06You put me back in your shadow na-na-na
09:10And I can't believe you'd do this to me
09:13Well, I just don't know what I'd do without you
09:17Belle
09:19Belle
09:21You took my reason for living
09:25After the love I had given na-na-na
09:28And I can't believe you'd do this to me
09:31Well, I just don't know what I'd do without you
09:35Belle
09:39Belle
09:40Belle don't you know what you're doing
09:44You turned our love into ruin na-na-na
09:47And I can't believe you'd do this to me
09:50Well, I just don't know what I'd do without you
09:54Belle
09:55No, I don't know what I'd do without you
09:58Belle
10:01I love you
10:02Belle
10:05I love you
10:06Belle
10:10I love you
10:11Belle
10:12I love you
10:13Belle
10:15Belle
10:34She spoke to me in words of sorrow
10:40She said she had no place to go
10:49I said come and stay till tomorrow
10:56She looked so weary from the road
11:03And I just smiled and tears just poured down under
11:16And I became a new man overnight
11:26We must have talked for many hours
11:33The fire I'd made had grown so dim
11:42And we must have loved for many hours
11:49The morning light came shining in
11:54And then she got up and waved a thoughtful thank you
12:06And I became a new man overnight
12:15A new man overnight
12:46A new man overnight
12:54Yeah, she just smiled and waved a thoughtful thank you
13:07And I became a new man overnight
13:19And I became a new man overnight
13:30And I became a new man overnight
13:42Yes, I became a new man overnight
13:59A girl fell in love with a lawless gun
14:04He took her heart and away they run
14:08Nobody's here to help me cry
14:13I wanna lay down and die
14:18The time we spent together in the silent night
14:22We really did it up in style that night
14:27We never felt a drop out in the pouring rain
14:31Now I'll never see her again
14:35Well, I'd like to go and find her but what good would it do?
14:40I'd only end up being one of Boothill's shoes
14:45And even if I found her it could never be right
14:49Cause she just didn't love me that much
14:54Well, I was out amending fence for my old man
14:59I felt I really owed him a helping hand
15:03I rode back into town just when the sun had lost its shine
15:07And that little girl was no longer mine
15:12She met up with an outlaw come to town to steal
15:17She heard about the way he'd make a woman feel
15:21She always had a flair for all those men in black
15:26Well now mister, how do you like that?
15:30Still I'd like to go and find her but what good would it do?
15:35I'd only end up being one of Boothill's shoes
15:40And even if I found her it could never be right
15:44Cause she just didn't love me that much
15:49I thought you loved me, guess I've been all wrong
15:54And I'm just a sitting here with this song
15:58Nobody's here to help me cry
16:03I wanna lay down and die
16:19I wanna lay down and die
16:49And when she smiles she makes the sun shine
16:59And wouldn't think to make it rain
17:05Happiness runs in her family
17:08She's a girl from the Google Earth in the hydrate forest
17:14And she's just about the happiest girl that I ever knew
17:21And when she smiles she makes me sigh
17:27She doesn't have a point of view
17:32Happiness runs in her family
17:35She's a girl from the Google Earth in the hydrate forest
17:41And she's just about the happiest girl that I ever knew
18:00Happiness runs in her family
18:03She's a girl from the Google Earth in the hydrate forest
18:09And she's just about the happiest girl that I ever knew
18:16And when she smiles she makes the sun shine
18:22And mourns the day with morning dew
18:27Happiness runs in her family
18:30She's a girl from the Google Earth in the hydrate forest
18:36And she's just about the happiest girl that I ever knew
19:06And when she smiles she makes me sigh
19:09She doesn't have a point of view
19:12Happiness runs in her family
19:15She's a girl from the Google Earth in the hydrate forest
19:19And she's just about the happiest girl that I ever knew
19:24And when she smiles she makes me sigh
19:28She doesn't have a point of view
19:31Happiness runs in her family
19:34She's a girl from the Google Earth in the hydrate forest
19:39And she's just about the happiest girl that I ever knew
19:44And when she smiles she makes me sigh
19:47She doesn't have a point of view
19:50Happiness runs in her family
19:53She's a girl from the Google Earth in the hydrate forest
19:58And she's just about the happiest girl that I ever knew
20:04They don't have no money
20:06They don't really need that much
20:08Cause they're really into alcohol
20:11And use it as a crutch
20:13They think that love is just a game
20:15Just like the night before
20:17They don't know what they're loving for
20:21They don't know
20:23They just want it more
20:28Pain and powder lady
20:30Pain and powder lady
20:32Pain and powder lady
20:34Pain and powder lady
20:36Pain and powder lady
20:38Pain and powder lady
20:40Pain and powder lady
20:42Pain and powder lady
20:44Pain and powder lady
20:46Pain and powder lady
20:48Pain and powder lady
20:50Pain and powder lady
20:52Pain and powder lady
20:54Pain and powder lady
20:56Pain and powder lady
20:58Pain and powder lady
21:03I live in a house that had candy floors
21:18And the walls were of chocolate and peppermint doors
21:27But my mother was a cheater
21:30And my father drank
21:32While I don't feel like a fantasy child
21:42Sometimes I see Alice in Wonderland
21:56She looks happy in her dream world
22:00So I reach out my hand
22:04But she runs away, oh so far away
22:08And I cry all the while
22:13I don't feel like a fantasy child
22:38I'm homely, I'm lonely, I'm feeling so low
22:51In a dream world full of magic
22:54Where everything flows
22:59And my mother was a cheater
23:02And my father drank
23:05While I don't feel like a fantasy child
23:17I don't feel like a fantasy child
23:36Yes, my baby left me, never said a word
23:41Was it something I done, something that she heard?
23:44My baby left me, my baby left me
23:48My baby even left me, he never said a word
23:54Yes, my baby left me, never said a word
24:00My baby even left me, he never said a word
24:06Lord, I stand at my window, wring my hands and cry
24:11I hate to lose every woman, hate to say goodbye
24:14You know she left me, my baby left me
24:18My baby even left me, he never said a word
24:23Play blues, boy
24:30. . .
24:47Baby, won't I be mourning?
24:50Lord, it won't be long
24:52You look for me and baby and daddy
24:54We'll not know, you know she left me
24:56Yes, she left me
24:58My baby even left me, he never said goodbye
25:06Now I stand at my window, wring my hands and moan
25:10All I know that in what I love is for you
25:13You know she left me, my baby left me
25:17My baby even left me, he never said a word
25:23Yes, my baby left me, he never said a word
25:30. . .
25:45. . .
25:52Before I loved and lost
25:57I never paid the cost
26:02Of losing one so near
26:07I never felt the fear
26:11Somebody's holding her
26:16And making love to her
26:21I love that woman so
26:25Don't ask me how or why
26:30She left me high and dry
26:35Don't ask me how or why
26:40I can't decide
26:56The pain inside my heart
27:01It's tearing me apart
27:06I love that woman so
27:11Why did she have to go?
27:15Now love's a losing game
27:20My nights are all the same
27:25No one to hold on to
27:30Don't ask me how or why
27:34She left me high and dry
27:39Don't ask me how or why
27:44I can't decide
27:56. . .
28:01I've cried a million tears
28:06Remembering all the years
28:10I've looked at all the past
28:15Those years went by so fast
28:20What did I do or say?
28:25To make her run away
28:30No one to hold on to
28:34Don't ask me how or why
28:39She left me high and dry
28:44Don't ask me how or why
28:48She left me high and dry
28:52Don't ask me how or why
28:57She left me high and dry
29:02Don't ask me how or why
29:15All of my life
29:19I used the earth as a pillow
29:22And the sky as a blanket of glue
29:26And all that I own
29:31Is the shirt on my back
29:34And the blanket and the saddle on you
29:38Mary, take me home
29:43Mary, take me home
29:50Mary, take me home
29:56Mary, take me home
30:01And I spent some time in jail
30:07But my face turned pale
30:09And my health was starting to fail
30:13So the sheriff let me go
30:17But then the townspeople caught me
30:19And they rode me out of town on a rail
30:24Mary, take me home
30:30Mary, take me home
30:36Mary, take me home
30:42Mary, take me home
30:47. . .
31:12Mary, carry me
31:17Take me right down to the place where I want to be
31:23My home's where I should go
31:29And I'm never gonna travel that godforsaken trail no more
31:35Mary, take me home
31:41Mary, take me home
31:47Mary, take me home
31:53Mary, take me home
31:59Mary, take me home
32:05Mary, take me home
32:10Mary, take me home
32:14Mary, take me home
32:44Come on if you're coming
32:47Come on if you're coming
32:50Come on if you're coming
32:53Come on if you're coming
32:56Come on if you're coming
32:57Don't you hear what I said
32:59I'm tired of waiting on you
33:03Well, you gave me the eye
33:06When I looked around
33:09Well, you gave me the eye
33:12When I looked around
33:15Well, you gave me the eye
33:16When I looked around
33:18What are you putting down?
33:21Come on if you're coming
33:24Come on if you're coming
33:27Come on if you're coming
33:30Come on if you're coming
33:33Come on if you're coming
33:34Don't you hear what I said
33:36I'm tired of waiting on you
33:41guitar solo
34:02Well, come on if you're coming
34:04Don't you hear what I said
34:06I'm tired of waiting on you
34:10Oh, I'm getting nervous
34:14I'm in a hurry to you
34:17I'm getting nervous
34:20I'm in a hurry to you
34:23Come on if you're coming
34:24Don't you hear what I said
34:26I'm tired of waiting on you
34:29Ha, ha, come on if you're coming
34:31Don't you hear what I said
34:33I'm tired of waiting on you
34:36Ha, ha, come on if you're coming
34:38Don't you hear what I said
34:41I'm tired of waiting on you
34:46guitar solo
34:59guitar solo
35:06guitar solo
35:09Ain't no woman finer lookin'
35:12She just makes my heart keep cookin'
35:15She just makes my life seem so worthwhile
35:22Ain't no room for conversation
35:25She just made my heart vibratin'
35:28And she just makes me feel so dog gone fine
35:35Ain't no time for wasting
35:38Ain't no time for wasting love
35:41Ain't no time for dying
35:44Cause I'm in love
35:56Ain't no woman finer lookin'
35:59She just made my heart keep cookin'
36:02She just makes my life seem so worthwhile
36:06She don't care about the thing I said
36:09She don't care for space in my bed
36:12And my love baby
36:14Made me feel so dog gone fine
36:20Ain't no time for wasting
36:23Ain't no time for wasting love
36:26Ain't no time for dying
36:29Cause I'm in love
36:36guitar solo
36:48Oh baby
36:53Yeah baby
36:58Oh baby
37:00Oh baby
37:04Woo
37:11Ain't no woman finer lookin'
37:14She just made my heart keep cookin'
37:17She just makes me feel so dog gone fine
37:24She don't care about the thing I said
37:27She don't care for space in my bed
37:30And my love baby
37:33Made me feel so dog gone fine
37:36Ain't no woman finer lookin'
37:39She just makes my heart keep cookin'
37:42She just makes my life seem so worthwhile
37:45She don't care for space in my bed
37:48And my love baby
37:51Made me feel so dog gone fine
37:54Ain't no woman finer lookin'
37:57She just makes my heart keep cookin'
38:00She just makes my life seem so worthwhile
38:23Going on back to Indiana
38:26Never should have left her before
38:28I'm gonna find my baby, I'm gonna find my baby, I love her
38:35Going on back to Indiana, I just can't go on living this way
38:44Cause there's so bad about her, I can't live without her, I love her
38:50She turned my head around, she's the nicest old thing I've found
38:57I love her
39:00There was times I thought I could leave her
39:04Pack my case and head for the road
39:08And then I did it, I can't believe I did it
39:12I left her
39:15Didn't take me long to realize
39:19What a fool this big boy could be
39:23They say don't throw away something when you ain't got nothing, I love her
39:29She got the style of a queen, she's the best thing I ever seen, I love her
39:54Coming back from Louisiana, going home as fast as I can
40:03And I ain't ever leaving, I ain't ever deceiving my baby again
40:10Going back to Indiana, I never should have left her before
40:20Cause I love my baby, I said I love my baby, I'm gonna find her
40:27She turned my head around, she's the best thing I ever found, I love her
40:34Oh, Indiana
40:49Oh, Indiana