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14 Feb 00 - 09:55 AM (#178042) Subject: HELP ME??? From: GUEST,Tom Davis I'm looking for the name of a tune I once heard on the radio. This is going to be quite vague,but here goes...i heard it only once, two or three years ago and i've had it in the back of my mind since... here is what i can remember of it. it is a ballad.... picked on steel-strung acoustic. it has been recorded by Bob Dylan. it contains the lyric "Sad Songs don't last as long on broken radios" i think it is about vietnam, heroin, the blues... the usual stuff. Bob Dylan didn't write it. That's all i know. i apologize again, for being so downright vague. Thanks. Tom Sam Stone lyrics in this thread (click) |
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14 Feb 00 - 10:20 AM (#178052) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: HELP ME??? From: bill\sables Hi Tom , the song you are looking for is "Sam Stone" by John Prine Cheers Bill |
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14 Feb 00 - 11:13 AM (#178067) Subject: Lyr Add: SAM STONE (John Prine) From: bill\sables SAM STONE - John Prine As recorded by John Prine on "John Prine" (1971) Sam Stone came home to his wife and family after serving in the conflict overseas And the time that he served had shattered all his nerves and left a little shrapnel in his knee But the morphine eased the pain and the grass grew round his brain And gave him all the confidence he lacked With a purple heart and a monkey on his back CHORUS: There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose Little pitchers have big ears, don't stop to count the years Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios Sam Stone's welcome home didn't last too long He went to work when he'd spent his last dime And Sam he took to stealing when he got that empty feeling for a hundred-dollar habit without overtime And the gold rolled through his veins, like a thousand railroad trains And eased his mind in the hours that he chose While the kids ran around wearing other people's clothes. CHORUS Sam Stone was alone when he popped his last baloon Climbing walls while sitting in a chair Well he played his last request while the room smelled just like death With an overdose hovering in the air But life had lost its fun, and there was nothing to be done But trade his house that he bought on the G.I. bill For a flag-draped casket on a local hero's hill. CHORUS |
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14 Feb 00 - 12:16 PM (#178089) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: HELP ME??? From: GUEST,Marymac90 Bill-you're back in circulation! Welcome back! I hope you and Lorna and the mandola had a good trip home! Check the "Children's song" thread-you might be able to answer the question. I hope I see you again on your next hop over the puddle. Luvya both, Mary |
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15 Feb 00 - 02:54 PM (#178883) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: HELP ME??? From: GUEST,Tom Davis thank you everybody for being so helpful!! |
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15 Feb 00 - 06:44 PM (#178983) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: HELP ME??? From: bill\sables So Tom why not stop being a guest and join us Cheers Bill |
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15 Feb 00 - 07:12 PM (#179006) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: HELP ME??? From: wysiwyg Tom, Come on in, the Mudcat water is fine, if you don't mind sharing a banjo! |