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Thread #168326   Message #4067313
Posted By: cnd
04-Aug-20 - 06:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
You can hear it here (as Starship rightly suggested, it was recorded under his alias name of Ferguson). You can also hear a much better quality recording at https://lostsongs.home.blog/2019/03/20/welby-toomey/

Here's my attempt at transcribing the lyrics. I got a lot of help from a looking at several different versions of "The Broken Heart" and Blue Eyes (I've closed several while searching for lyrics I thought fit, but a few good sources are here and here)

Like I said, this is my attempt at a transcription, I've filled in questionable spots with guesses marked with question marks but it's not perfect.



THRILLS THAT I CAN'T FORGET
(As recorded by Welby Toomey aka John Ferguson)

Would've been better for us both had we never
In this wide, wicked world, to have met
All the pleasures we've both had together
I am sure, love, I never ever can forget

I have loved you as I have no other
It's a ?death that? has pulled us apart
All our pleasures and hopes, departed
I have struggled in long, laboring pain

You told me you always would love me
And that nothing could come between
Long ago, long ago, (you) departed
Yet those words in my mem'ry are green

Would've been better for us both split as strangers
But it's why should I speak of it now
It had been long since I heard the ?veil? of ?danger?
And a heart broken thought of these vows

When the cold, cold ??? is around me
Would you come, love, and just drop one tear
And tell to the strangers around you
That a heart you have broken lies here