Released April of 2004
Produced by Martina McBride and Paul Worley
1. This One’s For The Girls (Remix)
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This One's For The Girls (Remix)
Written by Chris Lindsey, Hillary Lindsey and Aimee Mayo
Background Vocals: Aimee
Mayo, Hillary Lindsey, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Faith Hill, Delaney
McBride and Emma McBride
This is for all you girls about thirteen
High school can be so rough, can be so mean
Hold onto, onto your innocence
Stand your ground when everybody's giving in
This one's for the girls
This is for all you girls about twenty-five
In little apartments just trying to get by
Living on, on dreams and Spaghetti-Os
Wondering where your life is gonna go
Chorus
This one's for the girls
Who've ever had a broken heart
Who've wished upon a shooting star
You're beautiful the way you are
This one's for the girls
Who love without holding back
Who dream with everything they have
All around the world
This one's for the girls
This is for all you girls about forty-two
Tossing pennies into the fountain of youth
Every laugh, laugh line on your face
Made you who you are today
Chorus
Yeah we're all the same inside
From one to ninety-nine
Chorus
“It’s fun to listen to and it also has a great lyric. I love, love being able to sing, ‘You’re beautiful the way you are.’ Every time that line comes in the song I feel so good singing it to all the girls and women out there. It’s something we need to hear more often, especially with all of the media images telling you you’ve got to get Botox, have a fake tan, have a flat stomach, do it all, be popular, be driven, blah, blah, blah. For young girls there’s peer pressure. For adults there are all of those negative things you struggle with. It’s great to hear, ‘You’re beautiful the way you are, be yourself. You’re OK. As a matter of fact, you’re better than OK!’ Of course, being a mother I love the verse about standing your ground and not giving in. That is something I preach to my girls all the time.
It's one of those rare things: an up-tempo song with a real meaty lyric. It basically addresses every state of girlhood and womanhood. It's sort of an empowering little number. Hard to believe, coming from me, I know. It's really inspiring to me and it's fun.
"The song proclaims, ‘Yeah we’re all the same inside/from one to ninety-nine.’ That’s such an important lyric to me. Every night that I sing it live, I want people to feel that. I’m really no different. I just have a great job, and I get to wear cool clothes, and I was given a gift. That’s all it is, a gift, and we all have gifts. When it comes down to it, we are all just trying to do our thing, trying to make the world a better place in our way.
Well, I wanted to have kind of an all-girl chorus singing the answer part on the chorus but of course I waited till the very last minute. So I frantically made some phone calls, 'Will you come sing on my song?' And Faith was in town, she came in and sang and Carolyn Dawn Johnson came in. And then (my daughters) Delaney and Emma, they were just hanging out in the studio and I thought it would be fun to put them on there and they had a great time doing it," says Martina. And it turns out they may be the first session singers to ever do their part dressed in pajamas! I had taken them home and we had dinner at home and they'd had their baths and so they were in their pajamas and just seeing them in the vocal booth with the head phones on and their pajamas on and they were giving it everything they had, it was great!" Martina McBride
Wrong Again (Acoustic Mix)
Written by Tommy Lee James and Cynthia Weil
From the day we met
You made me forget
All my fears
Knew just what to say
And you kissed away
All my tears
I knew this time I had finally found
Someone to build my life around
Who'd be a lover and a friend
After all my heart had put me through
I knew that it was safe with you
And what we had would never end
Wrong again
Everybody swore
They'd seen this before
We'd be fine
And you'd come to see that you still loved me
In good time
And they said there's nothing you can do
It's something that he's going through
It happens to a lot of men
And I told myself that they were right
That you'd wake up and see the light
And I just had to wait 'til then
Wrong again
And it seemed to me the pain would last
My chance for happiness had passed
And nothing waited 'round the bend
I was sure I'd never find someone
To heal the damage you had done
And my poor heart would never mend
Wrong again
Wrong again
Written by
Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Troy Verges
Sometimes I'm an ordinary girl
Wrapped in my ordinary world
I just want to listen to the rain
And stay in bed all day
Other times I'm extraverted
Speak my mind and I don't worry who
Might disagree or what anyone might say
I don't listen to the critics
Or believe in all the cynics
I don't need that kind of advice
Chorus
I'm doing alright
Just being myself
That's all that I can be
I'm happy being me
Don't really want to be nobody else
I know who I am
And the one thing I do well
Is just being myself (yeah yeah)
I can be the drama queen
Where my emotions on my sleeve
Sometimes I know I'm a little hard to handle
Other days I'd rather stay at home
And have the world leave me alone
I just need some space
Just a little space
I've got my share of problems
And I may never solve them
In the end I know I'll be fine
Chorus
Bridge
Don't listen to the critics
Or believe in all the cynics
No - I don't have the time
Chorus
Harper Valley PTA (Live)
Written by Tom T Hall
Live in Philadelphia PA on February 27, 2004
I want to tell you all a story 'bout a Harper Valley widowed wife
Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High
Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play
She said, "Mom, I got a note here from the Harper Valley P.T.A."
The note said, "Mrs. Johnson, you're wearing your dresses way too high
It's reported you've been drinking and a-runnin' 'round with men and going
wild
And we don't believe you ought to be bringing up your little girl this way"
It was signed by the secretary, Harper Valley P.T.A.
Well, it happened that the P.T.A. was gonna meet that very afternoon
They were sure surprised when Mrs. Johnson wore her mini-skirt into the room
And as she walked up to the blackboard, I still recall the words she had to
say
She said, "I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley P.T.A."
Well, there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there and seven times he's asked me for a
date
Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he's away
And Mr. Baker, can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town?
And shouldn't widow Jones be told to keep her window shades all pulled
completely down?
Well, Mr. Harper couldn't be here 'cause he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar
again
And if you smell Shirley Thompson's breath, you'll find she's had a little
nip of gin
Then you have the nerve to tell me you think that as a mother I'm not fit
Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Harper Valley
hypocrites
No I wouldn't put you on because it really did, it happened just this way
The day my Mama socked it to the Harper Valley P.T.A.
The day my Mama socked it to the Harper Valley P.T.A.
Written by Gretchen Peters
Live in Roanoke, VA on February 26 2004
Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinkin' again
But daddy'd left the proof on her cheek
And I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way
So I took myself down to the fair in town
On Independence Day
Well word gets around in a small, small town
They said he was a dangerous man
Mama was proud and she stood her ground
But she knew she was on the losin' end
Some folks whispered and some folks talked
But everyone looked the other way
And when time ran out there was no one about
On Independence Day
Chorus
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today is a
Day of reckoning
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay, it's
Independence Day
Well she lit up the sky that fourth of July
By the time that firemen come
They just put out the flames,
And took down some names
And send me to the county home
Now I ain't sain' it's right or it's wrong
But maybe it's the only way
Talk about your revolution
It's Independence Day
Repeat Chorus
Roll the stone away
It's Independence Day
"It took a real long time. I'd say it was a year or two in the making, because I would tinker with it and then put it away for a while. I was afraid of the ending. That was a dilemma for me. The first couple of verses came together, and I had the melody. But the song is sort of dark, so I thought I had to find other ways to end it. I wound up having the courage to go with my first instinct. If nobody wanted to record it, then so be it.
Domestic violence is just something that I find so horrifying. I never saw anything like that in my childhood. I wrote it in the third person, so that it could sound more like reporting. It's also more emotionally powerful to have a child as a narrator, because children are the most severely affected in these cases." Gretchen Peters
"Every time I sing it, it just gets more powerful, you know I saw the video the other day, I hadn’t seen it in along time it and it still tares me up, its just, I’m so lucky that I found that song, I feel like it came to me for a reason and I feel really lucky that I get to go sing it and spread that message.
It took the symbol of freedom and turned it around. It's something that needed to be said.
I never really thought, ‘Will this be a hit? Will this be a single’ I just recorded it because I wanted it to be part of my body of work. I take pride that I stood up for what I believe in, that I didn’t necessarily play it safe." Martina McBride
