Billboard's #1 Country Singles

A well I bless my soul
What’s wrong with me?
I’m itching like a man on a fuzzy tree
My friends say I’m actin’ wild as a bug
I’m in love
I’m all shook up
Mm mm, Mm mm, yea, yea, yea!

My hands are shaky and my knees are weak
I can’t seem to stand on my own two feet
Who do you thank when you have such luck?
I’m in love
I’m all shook up
Mm mm, Mm mm, yea, yea, yea!

Please don’t ask me what’s on my mind
I’m a little mixed up, but I’m feelin’ fine
When I’m near that girl that I love best
My heart beats so it scares me to death!

When she touched my hand what a chill I got
Her lips are like a vulcano when it's hot
I’m proud to say she’s my buttercup
I’m in love
I’m all shook up
Mm mm, Mm mm, yea, yea, yea!

My tongue get tied when I try to speak
My insides shake like a leaf on a tree
There’s only one cure for this body of mine
That’s to have the girl that I love so fine!

When she touched my hand what a chill I got
Her lips are like a vulcano when it's hot
I’m proud to say she’s my buttercup
I’m in love
I’m all shook up
Mm mm, Mm mm, yea, yea, yea!

Mm mm, Mm mm, yea, yea, yea!
I’m all shook up

A white sports coat and a pink carnation
I'm all dressed up for the dance
A white sports coat and a pink carnation
I'm all alone in romance

Once you told me long ago
To the prom with me you'd go
Now you've changed your mind it seems
Someone else will hold my dreams

A white sports coat and a pink carnation
I'm in a blue blue mood.

I'm all dressed up for the dance
I'm all alone in romance

Once you told me long ago
To the prom with me you'd go
Now you've changed your mind it seems
Someone else will hold my dreams

A white sports coat and a pink carnation
I'm in a blue blue mood

I got me a room in a cheap hotel my head was a spinning and I didn't feel well
I laid right down and tried to go to sleep a band was playing in the joint underneath
I picked up my pillow and I covered up my head
But the band kept a playing and a shaking my bed

Honky tonk all night long honky tonk same old song
Honky tonk my money's all gone honky tonk she done me wrong
I turned and I tossed and I couldn't go to sleep
Cause the band kept a playing with a honky tonk beat

Well I'm so blue my baby's gone she took all my money and left me all alone
I'm tryin' to forget her but I don't know what to do
The honky tonk song keeps a leaking through
I picked up my pillow and I covered up my head
But the band keeps a playing and a shaking my bed

Honky tonk all night long honky tonk same old song
Honky tonk my money's all gone honky tonk she done me wrong
I turned and I tossed and I couldn't go to sleep
Cause the band keeps a playing with a honky tonk beat

Out where the bright lights are glowing
You're drawn like a moth to a flame
You laugh while the wine's overflowing
While I sit and whisper your name

Four walls to hear me
Four walls to see
Four walls too near me
Closing in on me

Sometimes I ask why I'm waiting
But my walls have nothing to say
I'm made for love not for hating
So here where you left me I'll stay

One night with you is like heaven
And so while I'm walking the floor
I listen for steps in the hallway
And wait for your knock on my door

Four walls to hear me
Four walls to see
Four walls too near me
Closing in on me
Closing in on me (fades out)

Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness,
Hello loneliness
I think I'm-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye love,
Bye bye sweet caress,
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love goodbye

There goes my baby with-a someone new
She sure looks happy, I sure am blue
She was my baby till he stepped in
Goodbye to romance that might have been

Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness,
Hello loneliness
I think I'm-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye love,
Bye bye sweet caress,
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love goodbye

I'm-a through with romance, I'm a-through with love
I'm through with a-countin' the stars above
And here's the reason that I'm so free
My lovin' baby is through with me

Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness,
Hello loneliness
I think I'm-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye love,
Bye bye sweet caress,
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love goodbye

Bye bye my love goodbye
Bye bye my love goodbye...

Baby let me be your lovin' Teddy Bear
Put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere
Oh let me be (oh let him be)
Your teddy bear

I don't wanna be a tiger
'cause tigers play too rough
I don't wanna be a lion
'cause lions ain't the kind you love enough

Just wanna be your Teddy Bear
Put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere
Oh let me be (oh let him be)
Your teddy bear

Baby let me be around you every night
Run your fingers through my hair and cuddle me real tight
Oh let me be (oh let him be)
Your teddy bear

I don't wanna be a tiger
'cause tigers play too rough
I don't wanna be a lion
'cause lions ain't the kind you love enough

Just wanna be your Teddy Bear
Put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere
Oh let me be (oh let him be)
Your teddy bear

Oh let me be (oh let him be)
(Your Teddy Bear)
I just wanna be your Teddy Bear

Far across deep blue waters, lives an old German's daughter
By the banks of the old river Rhine
Where I loved her and left her, but I can't forget her
I miss my pretty Fraulein

Fraulein, Fraulein, look up toward the Heaven
Each night when the stars start to shine
By the same stars above you, I swear that I love you
You are my pretty fraulein

When my memories wander, away over yonder
To the sweetheart that I left behind
In a moment of glory, a face comes before me
The face of my pretty Fraulein

Fraulein, Fraulein, walk down by the river
Pretend that your hand's holdin' mine
By the same stars above you, I swear that I love you
You are my pretty Fraulein

Wake up, little Susie, wake up
Wake up, little Susie, wake up
We've both been sound asleep, wake up, little Susie, and weep
The movie's over, it's four o'clock, and we're in trouble deep
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie, well

Whatta we gonna tell your mama
Whatta we gonna tell your pa
Whatta we gonna tell our friends when they say, ooh-la-la
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie, well

Well I told your mama that you'd be in by ten
Well Susie baby looks like we goofed again
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie, we gotta go home

Wake up, little Susie, wake up
Wake up, little Susie, wake up
The movie wasn't so hot, it didn't have much of a plot
We fell asleep, our goose is cooked, our reputation is shot
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie, well

Whatta we gonna tell your mama
Whatta we gonna tell your pa
Whatta we gonna tell our friends when they say, ooh-la-la

Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie

The warden threw a party in the county jail.
The prison band was there and they began to wail.
The band was jumpin’ and the joint began to swing.
You should’ve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.

Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone,
Little Joe was blowin’ on the slide trombone.
The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang,
The whole rhythm section was the purple gang.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.

Number forty-seven said to number three:
You’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see.
I sure would be delighted with your company,
Come on and do the jailhouse rock with me.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.

The sad sack was a sittin’ on a block of stone
but over in the corner weepin’ all alone.
The warden said, hey, buddy, don’t you be no square.
If you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.

Shifty Henry said to bugs, for heaven’s sake,
No one’s lookin’, now’s our chance to make a break.
Bugsy turned to Shifty and he said, nix nix,
I wanna stick around a while and get my kicks.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.

Dancin’ to the jailhouse rock
Dancin’ to the jailhouse rock
(fades) dancin’ to the jailhouse rock
dancin’ to the jailhouse rock

(Angel, angel, whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa)
(Angel, angel, whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa)

You are my special angel
Sent from up above
The Lord smiled down on me
And sent an angel to love (to love)

You are my special angel
Right from paradise
I know that you're an angel
Heaven is in your eyes

The smile from your lips brings the summer sunshine
Tears from your eyes bring the rain
I feel your touch, your warm embrace
And I'm in heaven again

You are my special angel
Through eternity
I'll have my special angel
Here to watch over me

(A smile from your lips brings the summer sunshine)
(The tears from your eyes bring the rain)
I feel your touch, your warm embrace
And I'm in heaven again

You are my special angel
Through eternity
I'll have my special angel
Here to watch over me (watch over me)

Here to watch over me
(Angel, angel, whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh oh, oh)

Someday I'm gonna write
The story of my life
I'll tell about the night we met
And how my heart can't forget the way you smiled at me

I want the world to know
The story of my life
The moment when your lips met mine
And that first exciting time I held you close to me

**The sorrow when our love was breaking up
The memory of a broken heart
Then later on the joy of making up


Never never more to part

There's one thing left to do
Before my story's through
I've got to take you for my wife
So the story of my life can start and end with you

(** repeat last two verses)

Can start and end
Can start and end
with you

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain,
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, but what a thrill
Goodness gracious, Great Balls Of Fire!

I laughed at love 'cause I thought it was funny,
You came along and you moved me honey
I changed my mind, this love is fine,
Goodness gracious, Great Balls Of Fire!

Kiss me baby,
Ooooooh! feels good!
Hold me baby,
Weeel, I want to love you like a lover should
You're fine, so kind,
I would tell this world that you're mine, mine, mine, mine!

I chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs,
I'm real nervous, but it sure is fun
Come on, baby, you drive me crazy!

Goodness gracious, Great Balls Of Fire!

Weeeel, kiss me baby,
Ooooooh! Feels good!
Hold me baby,
I want to love you like a lover should
You're fine, so kind,
I want to tell this world that you're mine, mine, mine, mine!

I chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs,
I'm real nervous, but it sure is fun
Come on, baby,
You drive me crazy!

Goodness gracious, Great Balls Of Fire!

(Dream on, dream on teenage queen prettiest girl we've ever seen)

There's a story in our town
Of the prettiest girl around
Golden hair and eyes of blue
How those eyes could flash at you (How those eyes could flash at you)
Boys hung 'round her by the score
But she loved the boy next door who worked at the candy store
(Dream on, dream on teenage queen prettiest girl we've ever seen)

She was tops in all they said
It never once went to her head
She had everything it seems
Not a care, this teenage queen (Not a care, this teenage queen)
Other boys could offer more
But she loved the boy next door who worked at the candy store
(Dream on, dream on teenage queen you should be a movie queen)

He would marry her next spring
Saved his money, bought a ring
Then one day a movie scout
Came to town to take her out (Came to town to take her out)
Hollywood could offer more
So she left the boy next door working at the candy store
(Dream on, dream on teenage queen see you on the movie screen)

Very soon she was a star
Pretty house and shiny car
Swimming pool and a fence around
But she missed her old home town (But she missed her old home town)
All the world was at her door
All except the boy next door who worked at the candy store
(Dream on, dream on teenage queen saddest girl we've ever seen)

Then one day the teenage star
Sold her house and all her cars
Gave up all her wealth and fame
Left it all and caught a train (Left it all and caught a train)
Do I have to tell you more
She came back to the boy next door who worked at the candy store

(Now this story has some more, you'll hear it all at the candy store)

Everybody's going out and having fun
I'm just a fool for staying home and having none
I can't get over how she set set me free oh lonesome me

A bad mistake I'm making by just hanging round
I know that I should have some fun and paint the town
A lovesick fool is blind and just can't see oh lonesome me

I'll bet she's not like me she's out and fancy free
She's flirtin' with the boys with all her charms
But I still love her so and brother don't you know
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms

Well there must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues
Forget about the past and find somebody new
I've thought of everything from A to Z oh lonesome me

I'll bet she's not like me she's out and fancy free
She's flirtin' with the boys with all her charms
But I still love her so and brother don't you know
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms

Well there must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues
Forget about the past and find somebody new
I've thought of everything from A to Z oh lonesome me

Oh lonesome me

Just married this mornin'
How happy they are
"Just Married" written on
The window of a-their car
It broke my heart
To see them drive away
I lost the one I love today

Dressed all in white satin,
White lace in her hair
She looked so lovely
It was more than I could bear
Some people guessed the way I felt inside
They saw the tears I could not hide

I should have stayed at home
I knew what was in store,
But somethin' made me come
To see her just once more

Just married this mornin'
How happy they are
"Just Married" written on
The window of a-their car
It broke my heart
To see them drive away
I lost the one I love today

I should have stayed at home
I knew what was in store,
But somethin' made me come
To see her just once more

Just married this mornin'
How happy they are
"Just Married" written on
The window of a-their car
It broke my heart
To see them drive away
I lost the one I love today

Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
When I want you in my arms
When I want you and all your charms
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream

When I feel blue in the night
And I need you to hold me tight
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam

I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m dreamin’ my life away

I need you so that I could die
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam

I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m dreamin’ my life away

I need you so that I could die
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream

(Fades out)
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream

Well you ask me if I'll forget my baby
I guess I will, someday
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way
You ask me if I'll get along
I guess I will, someway
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

God gave me that girl to lean on,
then he put me on my own
Heaven help me be a man
and have the strength to stand alone
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

You ask me if I'll miss her kisses
I guess I will, everyday
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way
You ask me if I'll find another
I don't know. I can't say
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

God gave me that girl to lean on,
then he put me on my own
Heaven help me be a man
and have the strength to stand alone
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

How I'd love to be around you
When the lonely night surrounds you
How I'd love to be alone with you

What I'd give to have the power
To read your mind one hour
How I'd love to be alone with you

Just to be with you one night
You and me alone
Kiss your lips and hold you tight
Have you for my own

This would be a joy unending
Could be a real beginning
How I'd love to be alone with you

How I'd love to be around you
When the lonely night surrounds you
How I'd love to be alone with you

If I only knew for certain
I'd cut out all my flirtin'
How I'd love to be alone with you

Just to be with you one night
You and me alone
Kiss your lips and hold you tight
Have you for my own

Won't you try to be my baby
Just for once and then well maybe
I could always be alone with you

Won't you try to be my baby
Just for once and then well maybe
I could always be alone with you
and I could always be alone with you...

It's been a blue, blue day
I feel like runnin' away
I feel like runnin' away from it all

My love has been untrue
She's found somebody new
It's been a blue, blue day for me

I feel like cryin', dying'
What can I do
Feel like praying', sayin'
I'm glad we're through

It's been a blue, blue day
I feel like runnin' away
I feel like runnin' away from the blues

I cannot make believe
That I don't sit and grieve
It's been a blue, blue day for me

I can't pretend and say
That I don't love her anyway
It's been a blue, blue day for me

I feel like cryin', dying'
What can I do
Feel like praying', sayin'
I'm glad we're through

It's been a blue, blue day
I feel like runnin' away
I feel like runnin' away from the blues

I feel like runnin' away from the blues.....

Johnny is a joker (he’s a bird)
A very funny joker (he’s a bird)
But when he jokes my honey (he’s a dog)
His jokin’ ain’t so funny (what a dog)
Johnny is a joker that’s a’tryin’ to steal my baby (he’s a bird dog)

Johnny sings a love song (like a bird)
He sings the sweetest love song (ya ever heard)
But when he sings to my gal (what a howl)
To me he’s just a wolf dog (on the prowl)
Johnny wants to fly away and puppy-love my baby (he’s a bird dog)

Hey, bird dog get away from my quail
Hey, bird dog you’re on the wrong trail
Bird dog you better leave my lovey-dove alone
Hey, bird dog get away from my chick
Hey, bird dog you better get away quick
Bird dog you better find a chicken little love of your own

Johnny kissed the teacher (he’s a bird)
He tiptoed up to reach her (he’s a bird)
Well he’s the teacher’s pet now (he’s a dog)
What he wants he can get now (what a dog)
He even made the teacher let him sit next to my baby (he’s a bird dog)

Hey, bird dog get away from my quail
Hey, bird dog you’re on the wrong trail
Bird dog you better leave my lovey-dove alone
Hey, bird dog get away from my chick
Hey, bird dog you better get away quick
Bird dog you better find a chicken little love of your own

He's a bird (fades out)

A bright array of city lights as far as I can see
The Great White Way shines through the night for lonely guys like me
The cabarets and honky tonks, their flashing signs invite
A broken heart to lose itself in the glow of city lights.

Lights that say "Forget her name in a glass of sherry wine"
Lights that offer other girls for empty hearts like mine
They paint a pretty picture of a world that's gay and bright
But it's just a mask for loneliness behind those city lights.

The world was dark and God made stars to brighten up the night
But God who put the stars above I don't believe made those lights
For it's just a place for men to cry when things don't turn out right
Just a place to run away and hide behind those city lights.

Lights that say "Forget her love in a different atmosphere"
Lights that lure are nothing but a masquerade for tears
They paint a pretty picture but my arms can't hold them tight
And I just can say "I love you" to a street of city lights.

Back about eighteen hundred some
A Louisiana couple had a redheaded son
No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe
They just called him Billy Bayou

Billy, Billy Bayou watch where you go
Your walking on quicksand, walk slow.
Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say
A pretty girl... get you one of these days

Billy was a boy kinda big for his size
Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes
Thirteen years form the day he was born
Bill fought the battle of the Little Big Horn

Billy, Billy Bayou watch where you go
Your walking on quicksand, walk slow.
Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say
A pretty girl.. get you one of these days

One sad day billy cried ho! ho!
I can whip the fathers off of Geronimo
He smarted off, the chief got mad
This nearly ended our Louisiana lad

Billy, Billy Bayou watch where you go
Your walking on quicksand, walk slow
Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say
A pretty girl... get you one of these days

One day in eighteen-seventy-eight
A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate
He didn't know whether to stand there or run
He wound up marred 'cause he did neither one

Billy, Billy Bayou watch where you go
Your walking on quicksand, walk slow.
Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say
A pretty girl... get you one of these days

Pretty girl... get you one of these days...

A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
A boy filled with wonderlust who really meant no harm
He changed his clothes and shined his boots
And combed his dark hair down
And his mother cried as he walked out

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

He laughed and kissed his mom
And said your Billy Joe's a man
I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can
But I wouldn't shoot without a cause
I'd gun nobody down
But she cried again as he rode away

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

He sang a song as on he rode
His guns hung at his hips
He rode into a cattle town
A smile upon his lips
He stopped and walked into a bar
And laid his money down
But his mother's words echoed again

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand
And tried to tell himself he had become a man
A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down
And he heard again his mothers words

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town

Filled with rage then
Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw
But the stranger drew his gun and fired
Before he even saw
As Billy Joe fell to the floor
The crowd all gathered 'round
And wondered at his final words

Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town