Elkie Brooks

I think I'm goin' mad and it's makin' me sad,
It's a yearnin' for my old back door.
I realize maybe I was born to lead, better swallow my silly country pride.

Goin' home, running' home, down the Gasoline Alley where I started from.
Goin' home, and I'm running' home, down the Gasoline Alley where I was born.

When the weather's better and rails unfreeze,
And the wind won't whistle 'round my knees,
I'll put on my weather suit and catch you in the rain.
I'll be home before the milk's upon the door.

Goin' home, running' home, down the Gasoline Alley where I started from.
Goin' home, and I'm running' home, down the Gasoline Alley where I was born.

But if anything should happen and my plans go wrong,
Should I stray to the house on the hill,
Let it be known that my intentions were good,
I'd be singing in my alley if I could

And if I'm goin' away and it's my turn to go,'
Should the blood run cold in my veins,
Just one favor I'd be askin' of you,
Don't bury me here it's too cold.

Take me back carry me back down to Gasoline Alley where I started from.
Take me back, won't cha carry me home down to
Gasoline Alley where I started from.

Take me back carry me back down to gasoline Alley where I started from.
Take me back, won't cha carry me home down to

A diamond flame, you're free again
who could love do that to you.
All dressed in black he won't be coming back. Save your tears, god! years and years.
The pains of seventeenth unreal the only dreams
save your crying for the day.
Fool if you think its over 'cause you said good bye.
Fool if you think its over I tell you why
You and I always cry the pain at the first look at the morning sun.
Fool if you think its over its just begun.
Miss teenage dreams such a tragic scene
he knocked your crown and ran away
first wound of pride and how you cry and cry but save your tears god years and years
fool if you think its over cause you say good bye fool if you think its over tell you why
you and I always cry the pain at the first look at the morning sun
fool if you think its over its just begun

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I buy you a first good wine we'll have a real good time
save your crying for the day
You may not come but anyone who had to pay we'll laugh and you'll say
fool if you think its over cause you say good bye fool if you think its over tell you why
I'll buy you a first good wine we'll have a real good time
I tell you why
You and I always cry the pain at the first look at the morning sun
fool if you think its over it just begun...

Baby cried the day the circus came to town.
'Cause she didn't like parades just passing by her.
So she painted on a smile and took up with some clown.
And she danced without a net upon the wire.
I know a lots about her'cause you see. Baby is an awful lot like me.

We don't cry out loud, we keep it inside. Leam how to hide our feelings, fly high and proud.
And if you should fall remember you almost had it all.

Baby saw the day they pulled the big top down.
They left be-hind her dreams among the litter. And the dif- f'rent kind of love she thought she'd found was nothing more than sawdust and sorne glitter. But baby can't be broken 'cause you see. She had the finest teacher, that's me.

I taught her don't cry out loud, just keep it inside. Leam how to hide your feelings, fly high and proud. And if you should fall remember you almost had it. Don't cry out loud, keep it inside..

Everywhere I go
I see a face we used to know
I pass a place we used to go
when you were mine
since you went away
my heart's not free
it keeps raining down on me
will there be a day
when the sun will shine

I want to see the sunshine after the rain
I want to see bluebirds flying over the mountains again
sunshine after the rain
oh where is the silver lining shining at the rainbow's end
when I hear your name
I start to cry, each day's the same since your goodbye
it's like a game, forgetting you

every night I pray
tomorrow brings a sunny day and happy things
just like the way it used to be for you and me
I want to see the sunshine after the rain
I want to see bluebirds flying over the mountains again
sunshine after the rain
oh where is the silver lining shining at the rainbow's end

everywhere I go
I see a face we used to know
I pass a place we used to go
when you were mine
since you went away
since you went away
my heart's not free
it keeps raining down on me
will there be a day when the sun will shine

I want to see the sunshine after the rain
I want to see bluebirds flying over the mountains again
sunshine after the rain
oh where is the silver lining shining at the rainbow's end
I want to see the sunshine after the rain
I want to see bluebirds flying over the mountains again
sunshine after the rain
oh where is the silver lining shining at the rainbow's end

Just why I stayed around
When all I found was heartache
I believed your every word
Didn't know the hurt and pain that you'd make
But why did it take so long
At last now I've seen the light
I've found the heart to say

No more the fool who waits around
Waiting for you to bring me down
Those days are gone now
No more the nights lying awake
Crying and waiting for the day to break
No more the sound as my dreams
Fall and hit the ground
While I wait around
No more the fool

You thought I'd break, then you were wrong
That I won't see what's going on
But I knew
Here I am, I'm alive
And you'll see I'll survive without you
And I won't be the one who comes running
It ain't like it used to be
It's your turn to run to me

No more the fool who waits around
Waiting for you to bring me down
Those days are gone now
No more the nights lying awake
Crying and waiting for the day to break
No more the sound as my dreams
Fall and hit the ground
While I wait around
No more the fool

All the nights I've waited for you to call
I've waited for a sign that you would stay
But it's so clear
You didn't care at all

No more the fool

No more the fool who waits around
No more the fool
No more the clown

No more the fool

No more the sight no more the sound
As my dreams fall and hit the ground
No more the fool

No more the fool who waits around
Waiting for you to bring me down
Those days are gone now
No more the nights lying awake
Crying and waiting for the day to break
No more the sound as my dreams
Fall and hit the ground
While I wait around
No more the fool

No more the fool who waits around
No more the fool no more the clown

No more the fool

No more the sight
No more sound
As my dreams fall and hit the ground

No more the fool

Pearl's a singer
She stands up when she plays the piano
In a nightclub

Pearl's a singer
She sings songs for the lost and the lonely
Her job is entertaining folks
Singing songs and telling jokes
In a nightclub

Pearl's a singer
And they say that she once was a winner
In a contest

Pearl's a singer
And they say that she once cut a record
They played it for a week or so
On the local radio, it never made it

She wanted to be Betty Grable
But now she sits there at that beer stained table
Dreaming of the things she never got to do
All those dreams that never came true

Pearl's a singer
She stands up when she plays the piano
In a nightclub

Pearl's a singer
She sings songs for the lost and the lonely
Her job is entertaining folks
Singing songs and telling jokes
In a nightclub