The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14647   Message #127381
Posted By: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au
23-Oct-99 - 11:48 PM
Thread Name: Origin: For the Good Times (Kristofferson)
Subject: RE: For the Good Times
Thanks for the lyrics kat. I always forget Cowpie!

It is also interesting that and "Help Me Make it Through the Night" were both written by the same person. I am not a great C/W fan, but there are some exceptions and these two are amongst them. They transcend the plastic instrumentation used from the 60s on.

Liam: Maybe the Eddy Arnold version was what I was confusing with Jim Reeves (all these cowboys look alike :) I have memories whenever I hear it too. The first time I heard it was in the middle of the night on a car radio as I was driving across the US. I had just broken up with a girl and I was alone and liking it. In that mood that only driving on an almost deserted road at night can induce. I was half-listening to the station; but this caught my attention--not quick enough for me to get who sang it or the name. Now I live in a different country, don't drive anymore, and have been happily married for almost 30 years. The song still recreates some of the feeling I had that night.

Murray