 Genius Meanings
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Mr. Sandman
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[Verse 1] / Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream / Make him the cutest that I've ever seen / Give him two lips like roses and clover / Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over / [
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Wildflowers
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The hills were alive with wildflowers / And I was as wild, even wilder than they / For at least I could run, they just died in the sun / And I refused to just wither in place
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Farther Along
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[Verse 1] / Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder / Why it should be thus all the day long / While there are others living about us / Never molested, though in the wrong
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – My Dear Companion
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Oh have you seen my dear companion? / For he was all this world to me / I hear he's gone to some far country / And that he cares no more for me / I wish I were a swallow flying / I
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – He Rode All the Way to Texas
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[Verse 1] / A light shines from my window / I just can't sleep no more / Lord, it hurts so much to be alone / But the real men never do admit / That it's them that might be wrong
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Rosewood Casket
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[Verse 1] / There's a little rosewood casket / Resting on a marble stand / With a packet of old love letters / Written by my true love's hand / [Verse 2] / Go and bring them to me
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Lover's Return
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[Verse 1] / And so you have come back to me / And say the old loves growing yet / You've tried through all these weary years / You've tried too vainly to forget / [Chorus] / Oh no
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Feels Like Home
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[Verse 1] / Something in your eyes makes me want to lose myself / Makes me want to lost myself in your arms / There's something in your voice makes my heart beat fast / Hope this
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – The Pain of Loving You
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[Chorus] / Oh the pain of loving you / Oh the misery I go through / Never knowing what to do / Oh the pain of loving you / [Verse 1] / You just can't stand to see me happy / Seems
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Telling Me Lies
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[Verse 1] / They say a woman's a fool for weeping / A fool to break her own heart / But I can't hold the secret I'm keeping / I'm breaking apart / Can't seem to mind my own
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Making Plans
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[Verse 1] / You say tomorrow you're going / That's so hard for me to believe / I'm making plans for the heartaches / 'Cause you're making plans to leave / [Verse 2] / The tears for
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris (Ft. Emmylou Harris) – Those Memories of You
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[Chorus] / Those memories of you still haunt me / Every night when I lay down / I'll always love you, little darling / Until the day they lay me down / [Verse 1: Dolly Parton] / In
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
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[Verse 1] / Oh sometimes I go walking through fields where we walked / Long ago in the sweet used to be / And the flowers still grow, but they don't smell as sweet / As they did
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – High Sierra
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[Chorus] / I've been higher than the high Sierra / Lower than Death Valley must be / I've been right, mostly wrong / Wrong about you, right about me / [Verse 1] / The way I feel
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – You'll Never Be the Sun
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[Chorus] / You'll never be the sun turning in the sky / And you won't be the moon above us on a moonlit night / And you won't be the stars in heaven / Although they burn so bright
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Do I Ever Cross Your Mind (Dolly Lead - Alternate Take 1994)
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[Verse 1] / Oh, sometimes I go walking through fields where we walked / Long ago in the sweet used to be / And the flowers still grow, but they don't smell as sweet / As they did
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Hobo's Meditation
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[Verse 1] / Last night as I lay on the boxcar / Just waiting for a train to pass by / What will become of the hobo / Whenever his time comes to die? / [Verse 2] / There's a Master
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – The Blue Train
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[Vesre 1] / Watching the long faces riding this rundown track / And the lost places from a dream that never brings them back / And the sad truth is nothing but a cold hard fact / [
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – I've Had Enough
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[Verse 1] / Love, it's not I who didn't try / Hard enough, hard enough / And this is why I'm saying goodbye / I've had enough, I've had enough / [Verse 2] / Love, you don't see the
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – After the Gold Rush
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[Verse 1] / Well I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming / Saying something about a queen / There were peasants singing and drummers drumming / And the archer split the tree
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – I Feel the Blues Movin' In
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[Verse 1] / Though the miles are between us / I thought our love would strengthen / As it has so many times before / But something has happened / I can see it in your eyes / I can
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – To Know Him Is to Love Him
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[Chorus] / To know know know him is to love love love him / Just to see him smile makes my life worthwhile / To know know know him is to love love love him / And I do / [Verse] / I
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Telling Me Lies (Remastered)
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[Verse 1] / They say a woman's a fool for weeping / A fool to break her own heart / But I can't hold the secret I'm keeping / I'm breaking apart / Can't seem to mind my own
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – When We're Gone, Long Gone
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[Verse 1] / Trouble, we have known trouble / In our struggle just to get by / Many times the burden's been heavy / Still we carried on side by side / [Chorus] / And when we're gone
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Softly and Tenderly (Unreleased 1994)
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Softly and tenderly, Jesus is calling / Calling for you and for me / See on the portals, he's waiting and watching / Watching for you and for me / Come home, come home / Ye who are
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Those Memories
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Those memories / Of you still haunt me / Every night / When I lay down / I'll always love you / Little darlin' / Until the day / They lay me down / In dreams of you / My body
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Linda Ronstadt – High Sierra
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[Chorus] / I've been higher than the High Sierra / Lower than Death Valley must be / I've been right, mostly wrong / Wrong about you, right about me / [Verse 1] / The way I feel
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Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton – Oh, the Pain of Loving You
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[Chorus] / Oh, the pain of loving you / Oh, the misery I go through / Never knowing what to do / Oh, the pain of loving you / [Verse 1] / You just can't stand to see me happy
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Jimmie Rodgers – Hobo's Meditation
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Tonight as I lay on a boxcar / Just waiting for a train to pass by / What will become of the hobo / Whenever that time comes to die / Has the Master up yonder in heaven / Got a
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Emmylou Harris – Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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[Verse 1] / She's a rounder I can tell you that / She can sing 'em all night too / She'll raise hell about the sleep she lost / But even cowgirls get the blues / [Verse 2
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Dolly Parton (Ft. Emmylou Harris & Sheryl Crow) – You're No Good
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Feeling better now that were through / Feeling better cause I’m over you / I learned my lesson it left a scar / Now I see how you really are / You’re no good, you’re no good, you’
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Kris Delmhorst – Garden Rose
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I have lived as a garden rose / It is the only life I've known / I've felt the touch of tending hands / I get my rain from a watering can / Now from the time I was a seed / I have
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Dolly Parton – Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
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[Verse 1] / Oh, sometimes I go walking through fields where we walked / Long ago in the sweet used to be / And the flowers still grow, but they don't smell as sweet / As they did
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The Carter Family – Lover's Return
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[Verse 1] / And so you have come back to me / And say the old love's growing yet / You've tried through all these weary years / You've tried too vainly to forget / [Chorus] / No
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Linda Ronstadt – You're No Good
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A song with many covers with different degrees of sucess — the one that topped the charts in 1975 is Linda Ronstadt’s.
At times old style rock'n roll (Swinging Blue Jeans version
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The O'Kanes – When We're Gone, Long Gone
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Trouble, we have known trouble / In our struggle just to get by / Many times the burden's been heavy / Still we carried on side by side / And when we're gone, long gone / The only
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Maura O'Connell – The Blue Train
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[Verse 1] / Watching the long faces / Riding this run-down track / And the lost places / From a dream that never brings them back / And the sad truth is / Nothing but a cold hard
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Bonnie Raitt – Feels Like Home
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“Feels Like Home” by Randy Newman appears on his album, Faust (1995).
Randy Newman’s Faust is a 1995 musical based on the classic story of Faust, but updated to modern day, and
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