I'm five hundred miles away from home
Teardrops fell on mama's note when I read the things she wrote
She said we miss you son we love you come on home
I didn't even have to pack I had it all right on my back
Now I'm five hundred miles away from home
Away from home away from h

(8 by 10, 8 by 10)

Spoken: all that's left of our old love now is just your picture, 8 by 10.

(a souvenir of things that might have been)
(my lonely world is only 8 by 10)

(8 by 10, 8 by 10)

Spoken: i remember the night that you gave me this picture. i ought to-i've

For thirty some odd years he faced a grinder in the city, hustlin' day in day out just tryin' to survive,
he bought his wife the finer things,and sent his kids to college, that always took what little bit he tried to put aside,
But thru it all he had one thing that seemed to keep him g

(Abilene Abilene prettiest town I've ever seen
Women there don't treat you mean in Abilene my Abilene)
I sit alone most every night watch those trains pull out of sight
Don't I wish they were carrying me back to Abilene my Abilene
(Abilene Abilene...)
[ ac.guitar ]
Crowde

Well I'll give you love that's above and beyond the call of love
And love's something that money can't buy

A poor boy's chances for pretty a girl's glances are sometimes very few
I've got no money but if you'll be my honey here's what I'll offer you

Well I'll give you love th

Before you take another step there's something you should know
About the years ahead and how they'll be
You'll be living in a world where roses hardly ever grow
Cause all I have to offer you is me
There'll be no mansions waiting on the hill with crystal chandeliers
And there'

All that keeps me goin' is knowin' that you love me and you're mine
All that keeps me goin' is knowin' you're gonna see me through troubled times

This morning when I woke up that ole sun didn't wanna shine
So I just laid back and let your mem'ry fell down across my mind
And sud

This song's for all the lonely women in the world
Drivin' a car sittin' in a bar wherever you are
This song's for all the lonely women in the world
Ringin' your hands thinkin' no man understands
To me there's nothing sadder than to see a lonely one
Neglected by the one she lo

Lips are you ready to tremble hands are you ready to shake
Eyes get ready to cry heart get ready to break
Here she comes now she's gettin' closer is everyone ready to start
Altogether now let's fall apart
Nerves you'll be going to pieces tears you'll stream down my face
Head

Always remember I love you I love you only you
Always remember your whole life through I love you just you
I'd give anything in this world if I could be with you right now
And hold you real tight in my arms
But since I can't I thought maybe if you knew how much I missed you
I

I just got home and found a note that you left lying on my pillow case
You say you're leaving me you found another man to take my place
And then you wish me luck and say you hope that I'll get over you somehow
Honey I won't even know your name an hour and a six-pack from now
You'

People laugh and love and cry and I'm still missing you
The paper boy still comes around (the paper boy still comes around)
Just like he used to do (just like he used to do)
But he's a little taller now and I'm still missing you
The leaves are piled against the fence (the leaves

I remember how once upon a time
Before I could even phone you I had to borrow a dime
I had nothing to give you and still you said you'd be mine
Lord these were the good years
A big night on the town for us used to be
Just two glasses of wine on our first anniversary
Oh I

My latest sun is sinking fast my race is nearly run
My strongest trials now are past my triumps has began
Oh come angel band come and around me stand
Bear me away on your snowy wings to my imortal home
Oh bear me away on your snowy wings to my imortal home
[ steel ]
I've

Thank you so very much ladies and gentleman
Where ever you might be listening around the world
On behalf of country music and the grand ole opry
And bbc and the po' boys and everybody in the
World i want to say welcome to one of the most
Exciting nights that country music has

(wally)
Mary lou tunner with the po' boys

(bill) we'll move right along with the music right
Now. i hope that maybe this will be a song you will
Enjoy. i was trying to think tonight as we made up
The program of different songs that might fit
Tonight. and since it seems

And may i take this opportunity while i have this forum
Of the bbc and afn to invite any of our friends from england,
Great britain, from europe or anywhere in the world, when
You come to america don't just go to new york or los angles.
Come down to god's country, come down to te

(bill)
I'd like to go back to the very beginning of
Bill anderson's career, which was in the late 1950's.
I was working as a disc jockey in a little radio
Station in the town of commerce, georgia, and our
Shown incidentally is being heard on a station
Where i used to work

(bill)
And now that you have met the po' boys once
Again may i introduce our poor girl to you who
Travels all over the world with the bill anderson
Show, singing her latest release called tomorrow.
(wally)
Bill, agreat big one from bill anderson and
The po' boys.

Maybe I don't love you quite as much as I believe I love you baby
But don't tell me cause lovin' you's a happy state of mind
Maybe I don't need you quite as much as I profess to need you baby
But don't leave me needin' you's a happy state of mind
And who's to say anyway that love