The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50236   Message #761135
Posted By: Joe Offer
07-Aug-02 - 01:54 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: desperate song search?????
Subject: Lyr Add: RIVER OF MEMORY
I found the other song threough a Google search. It's supposed to be at Motoya's bluegrass songbook, but the page wasn't there and I got it out of the Goocle cache. don't know songwriter information. Lyrics sent by e-mail.
-Joe Offer-

RIVER OF MEMORY

There's an old ram-shackled shack where in dreams I wandered back
And we listened to those southern melodies
Was a place where I was born on a bright October morn
And it's nestled at the end of my river of memory
Did you ever go sailing down the river of memory
To a little log cabin that's nestled among the sycamore trees
Where the sunshine is cheery and nothing in the world grows weary
As my cabin at the end of my river of memory
There's a mother old and gray at the end of memory's way
And I'll meet her there tonight among the trees
And with her welcome she so sweetly beckons me
To my cabin at the end of my river of memory

* Refrain

When twilight shadows fall, many childhood voices call
Calling back to the good old days that used to be
And in answer to their prayers, I'll soon be sailing there
To my cabin at the end of my river of memory

* Refrain

(Recorded by Ricky Skaggs on the "Family & Friends" album - he claims it's traditional)