R-214 · 45 single · A/B
Two Cups on the Table
In the PACEX catalogue from day one.
Both sides
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ATwo Cups on the Table3:09
[Verse 1] Well, I rolled in past midnight with a paycheck and a grin, Found the porch light burnin' but you wouldn't let me in. Slept out in the Kenworth with my jacket for a bed — [Female] You could sleep in Amarillo for the lovin' way you said You'd be home last Sunday — and the Sunday before that! I been talkin' to your dinner and your empty hangin' hat. [Chorus] But there's two cups on the table, and there's two names on the door, And there's twenty years of reasons we've been through this fight before. You can slam it, I can holler, we can carry on till dawn — But there's two cups on the table... 'cause neither one is gone. [Verse 2] I married me a rambler with a highway in his blood, Mama said, "You'll spend your life just wavin' from the mud." [Male] Now hold it right there, darlin', 'fore you paint me as the crime — Who's the fool that's drivin' double just to make it home in time? Every white line I been countin' has your name on every one — [Female] ...Well... you could've led with that part, hon. [Chorus] [Steel Solo] [Bridge] [Male] Pour me half a cup, then. [Female] It's already poured. [Male] You knew I'd be home this mornin'? [Female] Knew it from the Ford. [Both] Lord, we fight like cats and thunder... but we land like evenin' rain... [Final Chorus] Yes, there's two cups on the table, and there's two names on the door, And there's twenty years of reasons worth a twenty thousand more. You can slam it, I can holler, till the roosters carry on — But there's two cups on the table... [Male] Mine's the chipped one... [Female] Mine's the one with coffee still warm... [Both] ...'Cause neither one is gone.
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BThe Good Chair2:53
[Verse 1] There's a chair beside the window With a hollow for my back I can find it with the lights out I can hear its leather crack You say it's lost its stuffing And its better days are through But it held me through the winter When my working days were through [Verse 2] You have brought that up each springtime Since the spring of fifty-nine I've repaired the arm with carpet And the bottom with some twine There's a perfectly good sofa You could learn to sit upon But you look at that old monster Like a brother coming home [Chorus] That's the good chair That's where you belong Even when the springs give out And everything goes wrong Let the neighbours buy another Let the catalogue look fine That's the good chair And the hand beside it's mine [Steel Break] [Verse 3] I was looking through the paper Saw a man who mends this kind So I sent it off on Tuesday While you drove the county line [Verse 4] When I saw that empty corner I had plenty on my tongue Then you showed me where you'd saved up For the work that you'd had done [Bridge] They can keep their shiny furniture I know what that chair's worth [Bridge] Put it nearer to the sofa You're too far across the earth [Final Chorus] That's the good chair That's where you belong Even when the springs give out And everything goes wrong Let the neighbours buy another Let the catalogue look fine That's the good chair And the hand beside it's mine
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