LYRICS:

I let go of vanity that a pretty face brings, 
don't care nothing for any of those things
And I don't know how to fall in love no more, 
don't even know what I did all that loving for
And I don't wanna settle down, just to prove I can, 
kissed so many faces of beautiful men
And I don't know nothing, not like when I was young, 
it all feels right to just go numb
It's just for now, until I figure it out, 
how to merge beauty and love, and pour it all out

Vanity (first-take)

If I Needed You
Emmylou Harris/Don Williams
written by Townes Van Zandt

If I Needed You (Emmylous Harris first-take)

Delta Dawn/written by: Helen Reddy/sung by: Tanya Tucker
(1973)

LYRICS:
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on,
could it be a faded rose from days gone by,
and did I hear you say he was meeting you here today,
to take you to his mansion in the sky

She's forty-one (thirty-eight) and her daddy still calls her baby, 
All the folks around Brownsville say she's crazy,
Cause she walks downtown with a suitcase in her hand,
Looking for a mysterious dark-haired man

In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn,
prettiest woman you ever laid eyes on,
then a man of low degree stood by her side,
and promised her he'd take her for his bride




Delta Dawn (Tanya Tucker first-take)

It Don't Matter To Me
Artist: Bread,  Album: Bread,  Year: 1969

LYRICS:
It don't matter to me
If you really feel that
You need sometime to be free
Time to go out searching for yourself
Hoping to find, time to go to find

It don't matter to me
If you take up with someone who's better than me
Cause your happiness is all I want
For you to find peace, your piece of mind

And it don't matter to me
If your searching brings you back together with me
Cause there'll always be
An empty room waiting for you
An open heart waiting for you
Time is on my side

It Don't Matter To Me (Bread first-take)

Leave Me Here (first-take)

Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

Brown Eyes Blue (Crystal Gayle first-take)

Lonesome Blues
By: The Be Good Tanyas
Written by: Samantha Parton

Lonesome Blues (The Be Good Tanyas first-take)

Home (first-take)

Charlotte (first-take)

Tennessee Whiskey (George Jones first-take)

Raining In Darling (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy first-take)

When I Drink, (Avett Brothers first-take)

Home (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros first-take)

Vocals mine. Songs mine (unless noted). Rough, one-take scratch recordings. This site is solely for storage.

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