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Thread #146282 Message #3387753
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
08-Aug-12 - 04:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Whippoorwill...From Thunder Road
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Whippoorwill...From Thunder Road
Here's the Robert Mitchum version (link to youtube in source). (Nice mandolin too)
Mick
THE WHIPPOORWILL
The night was young and so were we,
Beneath the old magnolia tree
And when you said "I love you so"
The whippoorwill sang sweet and low.
The moon was high, we lingered long,
The whippoorwill went wild with song.
But when you said that we must part,
He struck a note that broke his heart.
Poor whippoorwill, he had no choice -
You took away his lovely voice.
The leaves are brown, the blossom's dead,
They tumble down all round my head.
My lonely heart cries out for you
The whippoorwill is lonely too.
<instrumental>
Poor whippoorwill, he had no choice -
You took away his lovely voice.
The leaves are brown, the blossom's dead,
They tumble down all round my head.
My lonely heart cries out for you
The whippoorwill is lonely too.
Source: Robert Mitchum, youtube