Holding Her and Loving You Song Lyrics and Chords by Earl Thomas Conley
Holding Her And Loving You
Recorded by Earl Thomas Conley
Written by Walt Aldridge and Tom Brasfield
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It's the third hardest
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thing I'll ever
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do
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Leaving
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here
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without
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you
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thing I'll ever
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do
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Is telling
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her
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about
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you
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She's been good to me
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When things were going rough
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I tell her now good ain't good enough
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the hardest thing I've
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ever had to
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Is holding
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her
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and loving
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you
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reason I'd be
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gone
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She ain't
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done
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one thing
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wrong
So don't expect me just to
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walk out of the
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door
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I still love
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her
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but I love you
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more
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She made my days long
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before you made my nights
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ever had to
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Is holding
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her
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and loving
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ever had to
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and loving
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her
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and loving
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you
FAQ
Who sang the the song Holding Her and Loving You?
- The song Holding Her and Loving You was sang by Earl Thomas Conley.
Who is Earl Thomas Conley?
- Earl Thomas Conley (October 17, 1941 - April 10, 2019) was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, of which eighteen reached Number One. His eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade, excluding Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.
