NEXT IN LINE
(Wayne Kemp / Curtis Wayne)

Conway Twitty - 1968
Cal Smith - 1968
Jack Greene - 1968
Carl Butler - 1969
Patty Loveless - 2008




 
See her there at the table
Watch her tear at the label
>From the bottle that she just drank dry
In her mind there's a burnin'
It took a long time, but she's learnin'
And just look at the teardrops she's cried

Ev'rybody knows I love her
But her mind is on another
And just look what he's done to her pride
And if she should change her mind
Give up the music and the wine
I'll be standing by to be the next in line

I know her favorite song so well
And she's happy I can tell
Just as long as she can hear the jukebox play
So I'll keep playin' it loud
I'll spend ever dime I have
To keep her happy in my own kind of way

Ev'rybody knows I love her
But her mind is on another
And just look what he's done to her pride
And if she should change her mind
Give up the music and the wine
I'll be standing by to be the next in line



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - October 2010)