Forget about it
I’m admitting I was wrong and I’ll just take what’s mine and walk right out the door

Forget about it
I’ll split and I’ll be gone and you’ll have memories you’ll find hard to ignore

Cause after all I’ll see you sometime baby when I can’t recall how you drove me crazier

Forget about it
When forever’s over I won’t remember how much I loved you anymore

Forget about it
Put me out of your head now that your free and easy out there on the town

Forget about it
When you’re lyin’ in bed just wishin I was there to lay on down

Cause after all I’ll see you sometime baby when you will recall how I drove you crazier

Forget about those star-lit nights
Layin by the fireside holdin’ you tight
I can’t remember when it felt so right
So just forget about it

(Bridge)
Forget about it
When you see me on the street don’t look don’t wave don’t try to tease me with your smile

Forget about it
If we chance to meet somewhere don’t think it’s cause I’m tryin’ to reconcile

Cause after all
I see you sometime baby
When I can’t recall how you drove me crazier
Forget about those star-lit nights
Layin by the fireside holdin’ you tight
I can’t remember when it felt so right
So just forget about it

Forget About It is the eighth studio album by Alison Krauss, released in 1999. It reached number 5 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The lead single, “Forget About It”, peaked at number 67 on the Country Singles Chart, and “Stay” reached number 28 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Track listing

1. “Stay” (Larry Byrom, Allyson Taylor) – 3:25
2. “Forget About It” (Robert Lee Castleman) – 3:30
3. “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference” (Todd Rundgren)– 4:28
4. “Maybe” (Gordon Kennedy, Phil Madeira) – 3:47
5. “Empty Hearts” (Michael McDonald, Michael Johnson) – 3:24
6. “Never Got Off the Ground” (Danny O’Keefe) – 3:40
7. “Ghost in This House” (Hugh Prestwood) – 4:04
8. “It Don’t Matter Now” (Michael McDonald) – 2:50
9. “That Kind of Love” (Pat Bergeson, Michael McDonald) – 3:43
10. “Could You Lie” (Ron Block) – 2:54
11. “Dreaming My Dreams With You” (Allen Reynolds) – 4:28

Personnel

• Alison Krauss – fiddle, vocals, harmony vocals
• Viktor Krauss – bass
• Barry Bales – bass, harmony vocals
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Kenny Malone – drums
• Pat Bergeson – guitar
• Ron Block – guitar, harmony vocals
• Sam Bush – mandolin, slide mandolin, harmony vocals
• Lyle Lovett – harmony vocals on “Dreaming My Dreams With You”
• Evelyn Cox – harmony vocals
• Sidney Cox – harmony vocals
• Suzanne Cox – harmony vocals
• Dolly Parton – harmony vocals on “Dreaming My Dreams With You”
• Jerry Douglas – dobro, lap steel guitar
• Joey Miskulin – accordion
• Matt Rollings – piano
• Dan Tyminski – guitar, harmony vocals

Production notes:

• Gary Paczosa – engineer, mixing
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Sandy Jenkins – engineer, assistant engineer
• Thomas “Snake” Johnson – engineer, assistant engineer
• Tim Waters – assistant engineer
• Chuck Turner – digital editing
• Tracy Martinson – digital editing
• Matthew Barnes – photography
• Nancy Given – art direction, design

Chart performance

End

Yesterday the odds were stacked in favor of my expectations
Lying above the rest, never falling from the nest
Tuesday came and went and now I’m in a little situation
Maybe it’s for the best, I can live alone I guess

Maybe I can stand alone
Maybe I’m strong as stone
Even though the bird has flown
Maybe he’ll fly on home

Forgive me if I’m keeping you apart from better conversation
I’m numb from all my doubt, trying to sort the whole thing out
Tell me that I’m smart enough to deal with all the information
Spinning inside my head, every word he ever said

Maybe I can stand alone
Maybe I’m strong as stone
Even though the bird has flown
Maybe he’ll fly on home

(Instrumentals and Background Vocals)

Maybe I can stand alone
Maybe I’m strong as stone
Even though the bird has flown
Maybe he’ll fly on home

Forget About It is the eighth studio album by Alison Krauss, released in 1999. It reached number 5 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The lead single, “Forget About It”, peaked at number 67 on the Country Singles Chart, and “Stay” reached number 28 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Track listing

1. “Stay” (Larry Byrom, Allyson Taylor) – 3:25
2. “Forget About It” (Robert Lee Castleman) – 3:30
3. “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference” (Todd Rundgren)– 4:28
4. “Maybe” (Gordon Kennedy, Phil Madeira) – 3:47
5. “Empty Hearts” (Michael McDonald, Michael Johnson) – 3:24
6. “Never Got Off the Ground” (Danny O’Keefe) – 3:40
7. “Ghost in This House” (Hugh Prestwood) – 4:04
8. “It Don’t Matter Now” (Michael McDonald) – 2:50
9. “That Kind of Love” (Pat Bergeson, Michael McDonald) – 3:43
10. “Could You Lie” (Ron Block) – 2:54
11. “Dreaming My Dreams With You” (Allen Reynolds) – 4:28

Personnel

• Alison Krauss – fiddle, vocals, harmony vocals
• Viktor Krauss – bass
• Barry Bales – bass, harmony vocals
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Kenny Malone – drums
• Pat Bergeson – guitar
• Ron Block – guitar, harmony vocals
• Sam Bush – mandolin, slide mandolin, harmony vocals
• Lyle Lovett – harmony vocals on “Dreaming My Dreams With You”
• Evelyn Cox – harmony vocals
• Sidney Cox – harmony vocals
• Suzanne Cox – harmony vocals
• Dolly Parton – harmony vocals on “Dreaming My Dreams With You”
• Jerry Douglas – dobro, lap steel guitar
• Joey Miskulin – accordion
• Matt Rollings – piano
• Dan Tyminski – guitar, harmony vocals

Production notes:

• Gary Paczosa – engineer, mixing
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Sandy Jenkins – engineer, assistant engineer
• Thomas “Snake” Johnson – engineer, assistant engineer
• Tim Waters – assistant engineer
• Chuck Turner – digital editing
• Tracy Martinson – digital editing
• Matthew Barnes – photography
• Nancy Given – art direction, design

Chart performance

End

[Chorus]
In my mind, I’m going to Carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine?
Can’t you just feel the moonshine?
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind?
And I’m going to Carolina in my mind

[Verse 1]
Karen she’s the silver sun
You best walk her way and watch it shine
Watch her once the morning come
A silver tear appearing now I’m crying, ain’t I?
I’m going to Carolina in my mind
There ain’t no doubt in no one’s mind
That love’s the finest thing around
Whisper something soft and kind
And hey, baby – the sky’s on fire
I’m dying, ain’t I?
I’m going to Carolina in my mind

[Chorus]
In my mind, I’m going to Carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine?
Can’t you just feel the moonshine?
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind?
When I’m gone to Carolina in my mind

[Verse 2]
Dark and silent late last night
I think I might have heard the highway calling
Geese in flight and dogs that bite
The signs that might be omens say I’m going, going
I’m gone to Carolina in my mind
It’s with a holy host of others standing around me
Still I’m on the dark side of the moon
And it looks like it goes on like this forever
You must forgive me
If I’m up and gone to Carolina in my mind

[Chorus]
In my mind, I’m going to Carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine?
Can’t you just feel the moonshine?
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind?
When I’m going to Carolina in my mind
When I’m gone to Carolina in my mind
Well I’m already gone
I’m gone
Say nice things about me
I’m gone, sudden gone
You’ve gotta carry on without me
I’m gone, I’m gone
I’m going to Carolina in my mind
Yeah I’m
Yes I’m going to Carolina in my mind

Who would sell their soul for love?
Or waste one tear on compromise
Should be easy enough
To know a heartache in disguise
But the heart rules the mind
And the going gets rough
Pride takes the fall
When you find that kind of love

I can’t help feeling like a fool
Since I lost that place inside
Where my heart knew its way
And my soul was ever wise
Once innocence was lost
There was not faith enough
Still my heart held on
When it found that kind of love

Though beauty is rare enough
Still we trust
Somehow we’ll find it there
With no guarantee
It seems to me
At least it should be fair

But if it’s only tears and pain
Isn’t it still worth the cost
Like some sweet saving grace
Or a river we must cross
If we don’t understand
What this life is made of
We learn the truth
When we find that kind of love
Cause when innocence is lost
There is not faith enough
We learn the truth
When we find that kind of love

Forget About It is the eighth studio album by Alison Krauss, released in 1999. It reached number 5 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The lead single, “Forget About It”, peaked at number 67 on the Country Singles Chart, and “Stay” reached number 28 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Track listing

1. “Stay” (Larry Byrom, Allyson Taylor) – 3:25
2. “Forget About It” (Robert Lee Castleman) – 3:30
3. “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference” (Todd Rundgren)– 4:28
4. “Maybe” (Gordon Kennedy, Phil Madeira) – 3:47
5. “Empty Hearts” (Michael McDonald, Michael Johnson) – 3:24
6. “Never Got Off the Ground” (Danny O’Keefe) – 3:40
7. “Ghost in This House” (Hugh Prestwood) – 4:04
8. “It Don’t Matter Now” (Michael McDonald) – 2:50
9. “That Kind of Love” (Pat Bergeson, Michael McDonald) – 3:43
10. “Could You Lie” (Ron Block) – 2:54
11. “Dreaming My Dreams With You” (Allen Reynolds) – 4:28

Personnel

• Alison Krauss – fiddle, vocals, harmony vocals
• Viktor Krauss – bass
• Barry Bales – bass, harmony vocals
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Kenny Malone – drums
• Pat Bergeson – guitar
• Ron Block – guitar, harmony vocals
• Sam Bush – mandolin, slide mandolin, harmony vocals
• Lyle Lovett – harmony vocals on “Dreaming My Dreams With You”
• Evelyn Cox – harmony vocals
• Sidney Cox – harmony vocals
• Suzanne Cox – harmony vocals
• Dolly Parton – harmony vocals on “Dreaming My Dreams With You”
• Jerry Douglas – dobro, lap steel guitar
• Joey Miskulin – accordion
• Matt Rollings – piano
• Dan Tyminski – guitar, harmony vocals

Production notes:

• Gary Paczosa – engineer, mixing
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Sandy Jenkins – engineer, assistant engineer
• Thomas “Snake” Johnson – engineer, assistant engineer
• Tim Waters – assistant engineer
• Chuck Turner – digital editing
• Tracy Martinson – digital editing
• Matthew Barnes – photography
• Nancy Given – art direction, design

Chart performance

End

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In this world I walk alone
With no place to call my home,
But there’s one who holds my hand
Through rugged roads, through barren lands.
The way is dark, the road is steep,
But He’s become my eyes to see,
The strength to climb, my griefs to bear.
The Savior lives inside me there.

Chorus:
In Your love I find relief,
A haven from my unbelief.
Take my life and let me be
A living prayer, my God, to Thee.

In these trials of life I find
Another voice inside my mind.
He comforts me and bids me live
Inside the love the Father gives.

In Your love I find relief,
A haven from my unbelief.
Take my life and let me be
A living prayer, my God, to Thee.

Take my life and let me be
A living prayer, my God, to Thee.

Essential Alison Krauss is the first official greatest hits album by American country music and bluegrass music artist Alison Krauss. The album, which was released on July 7, 2009, was only released outside North America. It was issued by Decca Records UK. The album is composed of songs that Krauss handpicked herself.^[1]

Track listing

1. “Simple Love” (Sarah Siskind) — 4:44
2. “Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us” (Sam Phillips) — 3:23
3. “Let Me Touch You For a While” (Robert Lee Castleman) — 3:20
4. “The Lucky One” (Castleman) — 3:10
5. “So Long, So Wrong” (Patrick Brayer, Walden Dahl) — 3:26
6. “Empty Hearts” (Michael Johnson, Michael McDonald) — 3:23
7. “Every Time You Say Goodbye” (John Pennell) — 3:16
8. “Wish I Still Had You” (Sidney Cox) — 4:58
   • live version
9. “Broadway” (Cox, Suzanne Cox) — 3:58
10. “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You” (Tony Macaulay, John MacLeod) — 3:54
    • live version
11. “Sawing on the Strings” (Lewis Compton) — 3:02
12. “Restless” (Castleman) — 2:57
13. “When You Say Nothing at All” (Paul Overstreet, Don Schlitz) — 3:53
    • live version
14. “A Living Prayer” (Ron Block) — 3:35

Chart performance

End

He looked down into her brown eyes
And said, ” Say a prayer for me.”
She threw her arms around him
Whispered, “God will keep us free.”
They could hear the riders comin
He said, “This is my last fight
If they take me back to Texas
They won’t take me back alive.”

There were seven Spanish Angels
At the alter of the Sun
They were prayin’ for the lovers
In the valley of the gun
When the battle stopped
And the smoke cleared
There was thunder from the throne
And seven Spanish angels
Took another angel home

She reached down and picked the gun up
That lay smokin in his hand
She said, “Father please forgive me
I can’t make it without my man.”
And she knew the gun was empty
And she knew she couldn’t win
Her final prayer was answered
When the rifles fired again

There were seven Spanish Angels
At the alter of the Sun
They were prayin’ for the lovers
In the valley of the gun
When the battle stopped
And the smoke cleared
There was thunder from the throne
And seven Spanish angels
Took another angel home

There were seven Spanish Angels
At the alter of the Sun
They were prayin’ for the lovers
In the valley of the gun
When the battle stopped
And the smoke cleared
There was thunder from the throne
And seven Spanish angels
Took another angel home

When the battle stopped
And the smoke cleared
There was thunder from the throne
And seven Spanish angels
Took another angel home

“Seven Spanish Angels” is a song written by Troy Seals and Eddie Setser, and recorded by Ray Charles as a duet with Willie Nelson. It was released in November 1984 as a single from Charles’ 1984 album Friendship. Charles and Nelson split the verses, with Charles singing the first and Nelson the second, Charles sang the first and second choruses with Nelson joining for the outro. It was also included on Nelson’s 1985 compilation album Half Nelson. “Seven Spanish Angels” was the most successful of Charles’ eight hits on the country chart. The single spent one week at number one and a total of twelve weeks on the country chart.^[1]

Setser had suggested the title “Seven Spanish Angels” and he and Seals had written the song as a homage to the tejano flavored classic hits of Marty Robbins exemplified by Robbins’ career record “El Paso“: (Troy Seals quote:) “When we finished it we thought ‘Who in the world’s gonna do it?’ because Marty was [deceased].” Within two days “Seven Spanish Angels” had been successfully pitched to Willie Nelson. Before Nelson was able to record it, producer Billy Sherrill happened to hear the demo and wanted the song for Ray Charles. Sherrill proposed that Nelson and Charles duet on the song after learning of Nelson’s having reserved it.^[2]

The song is about an outlaw and his lover who are trying to outrun a posse sent to return them to Texas. When they are cornered, they decide to fight the approaching lawmen. Before the final gunfight, the two embrace, speaking of their belief that God will spare them. The gunfight then commences, with the outlaw firing upon the posse. He is immediately shot and killed, prompting his distraught lover to pick up his rifle. She tearfully prays, “Father, please forgive me; I can’t make it without my man.” She deliberately points the empty weapon it at the lawmen and is then shot dead. After each death, the titular angels gather to pray for the lovers. This is followed by “thunder from the throne” and the angels “tak[ing] another angel home”. ^[3] Seals stated that “We tried to make [the story] ethereal but also believable”. As written the song included the lines: “Now the people in the valley swear/ That when the moon’s just right/ They see the Texan and his woman/ Ride across the clouds at night”, which Sherrill preferred not to record feeling the track would run too long.^[2]

Chart performance

Cover versions

• Canadian country music artist George Canyon covered the song on his 2007 album, Classics.
• Both Norwegian-born Country music artist, Heidi Hauge, and Dutch-born Peter Naude have covered the song; the latter turning it in to a more modern pop version.
• Mati Nuude recorded an Estonian version.
• Czech country group Greenhorns covered the song as Sedm španělských andělů (Seven Spanish Angels), with lyrics faithful to the spirit of the original.
• Czech country singer Pavel Bobek covered the song as Muž na konci světa (Man at the end of the world) in 2002, with completely different lyrics in Czech.
• Croatian singer Mišo Kovač covered the song as Ti si pjesma moje duše (You Are the Song of My Soul) in 1986., with altered lyrics in Croatian, and it became a big hit in Yugoslavia, reaching #2 on the charts there.
• Mid-west country singer Smokey Smith covered the song on his album “Songs of Life 2”.
• Adam Harvey (Australian Country Singer) covers on his 2014 country classic songbook album with Troy Cassar-Daley
• Jamaican dancehall artist Beenie Man covered the song on his 1994 album Dis Unu Fi Hear.
• Kari Tapio recorded a Finnish language version, Enkeleitä seitsemän (Seven angels).
• Stoney LaRue covered the song as a duet with Cody Canada on his 2015 album Us Time.
• The Jamaican reggae artist Garnett Silk covered the song to his album Nothing Can Divide Us.
• The Howling Tongues covered the song on their album A Collection of Covers.
• Alf Robertsson (Swedish country singer) recorded a Swedish version, Sju små vita änglar.
• Chris Stapleton and Dwight Yoakam performed this song live at the 2016 CMA Awards.

End

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Lyrics:

I don’t pick up the mail
I don’t pick up the phone
I don’t answer the door
I’d just as soon be alone
I don’t keep this place up
I just keep the lights down
I don’t live in these rooms
I just rattle around

I’m just a ghost in this house
I’m just a shadow upon these walls
As quietly as a mouse I haunt these halls
I’m just a whisper of smoke
I’m all that’s left of two hearts on fire
That once burned out of control
It took my body and soul
I’m just a ghost in this house

I don’t mind if it rains
I don’t care if it’s clear
I don’t mind stayin in
There’s another ghost here
She sits down in your chair
And she shines with your light
And she lays down her head
On your pillow at night

I’m just a ghost in this house
I’m just a shell of the man I was
A living proof of the damage heartbreak does
I’m just a whisper of smoke
I’m all that’s left of two hearts on fire
That once burned out of control
It took my body and soul
I’m just a ghost in this house

I’m just a ghost in this house
I’m just a shadow upon these walls
As quietly as a mouse I haunt these halls
I’m just a whisper of smoke
I’m all that’s left of two hearts on fire
That once burned out of control
It took my body and soul
I’m just a ghost in this house
Oh-oh, I’m just a ghost in this house.

Original artist: The Foundations

Lyrics:

Baby,
now that I’ve found you
I won’t let you go
I built my world around you
I need you so,
baby even though
You don’t need me
now

Baby,
now that I’ve found you
I won’t let you go
I built my world around you
I need you so
Baby even though
You don’t need me,
You don’t need me oh, no

Baby, baby,
when first we met
I knew in this heart of mine

That you were someone I couldn’t forget.
I said right,
and abide my time

Spent my life looking
for that somebody
to make me feel like new
Now you tell me that you want to leave me
But darling, I just can’t let you

[guitar & fiddle solo]

Baby, baby,
when first we met
I knew in this heart of mine
That you were someone I couldn’t forget.
I said right,
and abide my time

Spent my life looking
for that somebody
to make me feel like new
Now you tell me that you want to leave me
But darling, I just can’t let you

Now that I found you
I built my world around you

I need you so, baby even though
You don’t need me now

Baby, now that I’ve found you
I won’t let you go
I built my world around you
I need you so
Baby even though
You don’t need me
You don’t need me no, no