1. Strong Enough To Bend (2:42) - The tempo is fast. A tree in the narrator's back yard has withstood the wind for years. If she and the man she loves are as strong as the tree, their relationship will last for eternity.
2. Love Me Like You Used To (3:47) - This song has a slow swing tempo. For the first 8 seconds, an ethereal chord fades in. Somehow the narrator and her man have lost touch with each other. They now watch TV rather than make love. She begs him to rekindle the flame he used to feel for her.
3. Just Another Love (3:11) - This moderately fast song is one of two songs I used to hear on the radio as a child, but not until more recently did I learn it was Tanya. The narrator has heard that the guy she sings to has a reputation for loving girls, then leaving them. But she, having never been in love before, decides to take a chance with him. Still, she makes it clear that she wants a lasting love, not a one-night stand.
4. One Love At A Time (2:54) - The tempo is somewhat faster than moderate. Loving more than one person at once, or "burnin' both ends of a candle," can indeed tear someone apart. Tanya plays the role of a gal who must decide which guy to stay with and which one to set free.
5. Texas (When I Die) (4:00) - Tanya's character in this fast song doubts that cowboys (or cowgirls) go to heaven, so she hopes to go to Texas when she dies. New York, Detroit, Milwaukee and other cities don't appeal to her at all. From the second verse I can tell she's a fan of Merle Haggard. From 2:23 till fadeout, many people sing the chorus with Tanya and cheer; the echo effects match the theme of the song.
6. I Won't Take Less Than Your Love (with Paul Overstreet and Paul Davis) (3:39) - This moderately fast song is the other one I used to hear as a child. The first and third verses are sung in the key of F, but for the second verse the key changes to C, I guess to accommodate Tanya's vocal range. Paul D. sang the first verse, Paul O. the third. This song alone is reason enough to buy this disc, for it describes how much more important love is (whether between husband and wife, parent and child, or person and God) than all the material objects in the world.
7. San Antonio Stroll (2:55) - A mandolin rolls rapidly for the first 6 seconds, keeping the listener guessing what the speed of the rest of the song is. It turns out to be a moderate speed. The narrator's parents and older sister go square dancing on Saturday nights; as the narrator gets older, they urge her to come with them. Now she loves to do the dance named in the title.
8. Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone) (2:48) - The tempo is slow. I don't recall ever hearing Tanya's version before buying this disc, but I did hear a version by Willie Nelson. As Tanya sings the first verse, only chimes play behind her. The narrator asks her man if he would do many things for her besides do as the title says. Most of all, she needs him to stick with her whenever she faces trials. Until I read Tanya's a-b, I had no idea this was meant to be a wedding song, nor that the "field of stone" was a cemetery. I had thought the couple would be curling up together in a lava field while still alive! (That would hardly be a comfortable place to be intimate anyway; ouch!) For the last 50 seconds, Tanya and her backup singers sing a round of the first lines of all the verses.
9. What's Your Mama's Name, Child (3:11) - This somewhat fast song has a slow intro and conclusion. Tanya sings a capella for the first 19 seconds. She sings about Buford Wilson, who searches for his daughter in Memphis and ends up in jail when he offers candy to a little girl who might be the object of his search. Eventually he dies in jail.
10. Blood Red And Going Down (3:13) - That's what the Georgia sun is, according to this moderate-paced song with a slow 8-second intro. Instruments include a harmonica. The narrator and her father move to Augusta, Georgia, after her mother runs off with another man. Once this song is over, this disc "goes down" like the sun.