The Cold Hard Facts of Life

~ Release by Porter Wagoner (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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1▼CD: Confessions of a Broken Man / Soul of a Convict
#TitleRatingLength
1Men With Broken Hearts
cover recording of:
Men With Broken Hearts
lyricist and composer:
Hank Williams (country music legend)
2:44
2I Just Came to Smell the Flowers
recording of:
I Just Came to Smell the Flowers
lyricist and composer:
Vic McAlpin
2:37
3May You Never Be Alone
cover recording of:
May You Never Be Alone (Hank Williams song)
lyricist and composer:
Hank Williams (country music legend)
2:22
4Skid Row Joe
recording of:
Skid Row Joe
lyricist and composer:
Freddie Hart (Country, Nashville Sound, US)
3:03
5Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time
cover recording of:
Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time
lyricist and composer:
Ernest Tubb
2:34
6How Far Can I Go?
recording of:
How Far Down Can I Go
lyricist:
Jerome C. Barney and Harlan Howard
composer:
Harlan Howard
2:41
7I’m a Long Way From Home
recording of:
I’m a Long Way From Home
lyricist and composer:
Hank Cochran (Nashville singer and songwriter)
2:14
8Confessions of a Broken Man
recording of:
Confessions of a Broken Man
lyricist and composer:
Bill Anderson (US country singer, songwriter & TV personality)
3:00
9My Tears Are Overdue
cover recording of:
My Tears Are Overdue
lyricist and composer:
Freddie Hart (Country, Nashville Sound, US)
2:41
10I’ve Been Down That Road Before
cover recording of:
I’ve Been Down That Road Before
lyricist and composer:
Hank Williams (country music legend)
2:51
11Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
cover recording of:
Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
lyricist and composer:
Pee Wee King
2:58
12My Last Two Tens
cover recording of:
My Last Two Tens
lyricist and composer:
Vic McAlpin
2:52
13Boston Jail
cover recording of:
Boston Jail
writer:
Tony Senn and Tommy Stough (US / Nashville songwriter)
2:14
14The Convict and the Rose
cover recording of:
The Convict and the Rose
writer and composer:
Betty Chapin aka Robert King (late 19th- early 20th c. composer aka Mary Earl)
2:30
15I Relived My Life Today
recording of:
I Relived My Life Today
lyricist and composer:
Vic McAlpin
3:06
16I’m Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
cover recording of:
I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
writer:
Karl Davis and Harty Taylor
publisher:
Duchess Music
42:14
17Let Me In
recording of:
Let Me In
lyricist and composer:
Gene Crysler (American songwriter, has written over 100 songs. His name is a pseudonym)
2:46
18The Big River Train
cover recording of:
The Big River Train
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Mullins
2:52
19The Snakes Crawl at Night
cover recording of:
The Snakes Crawl at Night
writer:
Fred Burch and Mel Tillis
2:36
20They’re All Going Home but One
cover recording of:
They're All Going Home but One
writer:
Karl Davis and Harty Taylor
2:57
21Folsom Prison
cover recording of:
Folsom Prison Blues
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend)
publisher:
Aberbach (London) (publisher), Carlin Music Corporation and Hi Lo Music
is based on:
Crescent City Blues
2:17
22Soul of a Convict
recording of:
Soul of a Convict
lyricist and composer:
Red Sovine
3:28
23Green Green Grass of Home
cover recording of:
Green, Green Grass of Home
lyricist and composer:
Claude “Curly” Putman, Jr.
publisher:
Burlington Music Ltd. and Tree Music
translated version of:
Ik ben weer in m’n dorpje
2:26
24(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
cover recording of:
(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
lyricist, writer and composer:
Jimmie Davis (American politician, singer and songwriter) and Hank Williams (country music legend)
publisher:
APRS (American Performing Rights Society, Inc.(BMI)), Peer-Southern Productions, Inc., Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music (tradename of Sony/ATV Songs LLC) and Jimmie Davis Music Company, Inc. (on 1951-12-31)
2:23
2▼CD: The Cold Hard Facts of Life / The Bottom of the Bottle
#TitleRatingLength
1The First Mrs. Jones
cover recording of:
First Mrs. Jones
lyricist and composer:
Bill Anderson (US country singer, songwriter & TV personality)
publisher:
Stallion Music, Inc.
2:48
2Words and Music
cover recording of:
Words and Music
lyricist and composer:
Vance Bulla
2:34
3The Cold Hard Facts of Life
recording of:
The Cold Hard Facts of Life
lyricist and composer:
Bill Anderson (US country singer, songwriter & TV personality)
3:15
4Sleep
recording of:
Sleep
lyricist and composer:
Jack Clement
2:25
5Hundred Dollar Funeral
recording of:
Hundred Dollar Funeral
lyricist and composer:
Vic McAlpin
2:51
6If I Could Only Start Over
cover recording of:
If I Could Only Start Over
lyricist and composer:
Faye W. Bradshaw
2:02
7Tragic Romance
cover recording of:
Tragic Romance
writer:
Grandpa Jones, Wiley Morris (American country musician) and Zeke Morris
publisher:
Peer Music (“Peermusic—the global independent”)
2:38
8Try Being Lonely
recording of:
Try Being Lonely
lyricist and composer:
George McCormick
1:46
9I’ll Get Ahead Some Day
recording of:
I’ll Get Ahead Someday
lyricist and composer:
Mack Magaha (Bluegrass Fiddler)
publisher:
Carreta Music Inc.
2:06
10I Just Can’t Let You Say Goodbye
cover recording of:
I Just Can’t Let You Say Goodbye
lyricist and composer:
Willie Nelson
publisher:
Sony/ATV Tree Publishing
2:36
11Shopworn
recording of:
Shopworn
lyricist and composer:
Ted Harris (US Rockabilly/Country artist Theodore Clifford Harris)
2:17
12Julie
recording of:
Julie
lyricist and composer:
Waylon Jennings (US country musician)
publisher:
Wilderness Music Publishing Co.
2:37
13Wino
recording of:
Wino
writer:
Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner
2:28
14Daddy and the Wine
cover recording of:
Daddy and the Wine
lyricist and composer:
Gene Crysler (American songwriter, has written over 100 songs. His name is a pseudonym)
2:35
15Swinging Doors
cover recording of:
Swinging Doors
lyricist and composer:
Merle Haggard (US country singer, guitarist, fiddler & songwriter)
2:30
16The Bottom of the Bottle
2:24
17In the Shadows of the Wine
recording of:
In the Shadows of the Wine
writer:
Chet Atkins and Dusty Rose
2:11
18She Burnt the Little Roadside Tavern Down
cover recording of:
She Burnt the Little Roadside Tavern Down
lyricist and composer:
Bill Howard (1960s US singer/songwriter.)
2:04
19The Bottle Let Me Down
cover recording of:
The Bottle Let Me Down
lyricist and composer:
Merle Haggard (US country singer, guitarist, fiddler & songwriter)
2:26
20One Dime for the Wine
2:11
21Wine
recording of:
Wine
lyricist and composer:
Mel Tillis
2:12
22Turn the Juke Box Up Louder
2:32
23I Threw Away the Rose
cover recording of:
I Threw Away the Rose
lyricist and composer:
Merle Haggard (US country singer, guitarist, fiddler & songwriter)
2:43
24Bottle, Bottle
recording of:
Bottle, Bottle
lyricist and composer:
Larry Kingston
2:26
3▼CD: The Carroll County Accident / Down in the Alley
#TitleRatingLength
1The World Needs a Washin’
recording of:
The World Needs a Washin’
composer:
Hank Cochran (Nashville singer and songwriter) and Buck Trent
1:54
2Banks of the Ohio
cover recording of:
Banks of the Ohio
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Bienstock Publishing Company (ASCAP affiliated), Blue Gum Music, Ltd and John Farrar Music
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 157)
2:23
3Sing Me Back Home
cover recording of:
Sing Me Back Home
lyricist and composer:
Merle Haggard (US country singer, guitarist, fiddler & songwriter)
publisher:
Sony/ATV Tree Publishing
2:23
4Barefoot Nellie
cover recording of:
Barefoot Nellie
writer:
Jim Davis (Country/bluegrass songwriter) and Don Reno (bluegrass banjoist, Reno & Smiley member, father of Don Wayne Reno)
2:16
5Sorrow Overtakes the Wine
recording of:
Sorrow Overtakes the Wine
lyricist and composer:
Joyce McCord
2:18
6Black Jack’s Bar
recording of:
Black Jack’s Bar
lyricist and composer:
Jimmy Driftwood
2:20
7The Carroll County Accident
recording of:
The Carroll County Accident
lyricist and composer:
Bob Ferguson
2:50
8Rocky Top
cover recording of:
Rocky Top
composer:
Boudleaux Bryant and Felice Bryant
publisher:
House of Bryant Publications (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
2:35
9Your Mother’s Eyes
recording of:
Your Mother’s Eyes
writer:
Mel Tillis
2:24
10King of the Cannon County Hills
recording of:
King of the Cannon County Hills
lyricist and composer:
Louis Jones
2:41
11I Lived So Fast and Hard
cover recording of:
I Lived So Fast and Hard
lyricist and composer:
Dolly Parton
2:21
12Fallen Leaves
cover recording of:
Fallen Leaves
lyricist and composer:
Louis M. Jones
2:06
13Here’s a Toast to Mama
recording of:
Here’s a Toast to Mama
writer:
Buck Owens and Gene Price (country/rockabilly singer/songwriter)
2:36
14Sidewalks of Chicago
recording of:
Sidewalks of Chicago
writer and composer:
Dave Kirby (US country singer/songwriter)
3:07
15The Silent Kind
recording of:
The Silent Kind
lyricist and composer:
Porter Wagoner
2:08
16The Alley
recording of:
The Alley
lyricist and composer:
Dolly Parton
2:23
17The Town Drunk
recording of:
The Town Drunk
lyricist and composer:
Dolly Parton
2:13
18Mama
recording of:
Mama
lyricist and composer:
Charlie Aldridge (Songwriter)
3:19
19Bottle of Wine
cover recording of:
Bottle of Wine
lyricist and composer:
Tom Paxton (US folk singer-songwriter)
publisher:
United Artists Music Co., Inc.
2:04
20One More Dime
recording of:
One More Dime
lyricist and composer:
Dolly Parton
2:06
21I Judged a Man
recording of:
I Judged a Man
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Mullins
2:56
22When I Drink My Wine
recording of:
When I Drink My Wine
lyricist and composer:
Dolly Parton
2:33