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Thread #49048   Message #739592
Posted By: masato sakurai
29-Jun-02 - 09:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Show Me the Way (from Bill Monroe)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Show Me The way To The Right Road
I have the CD box-set containing the song, but can't transcribe the lyrics. "Show Me the Way" (chorus: "Show me the way to the right road...") was recorded by Bill Monroe in 1975; the sound clip is HERE (disc 3, track 2; the jacket photo is wrong). It's a song "by Virginia Stauffer, whom Monroe referred to as 'a little old lady from Michigan,' but who was now living in Nashville and regularly producing songs for him (such as Road Of Life, the title song for his 1974 album)" (Charles Wolfe, "Notes to Bill Monroe Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear Family BCD 15 606 DI)," p. 17).

~Masato