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Thread #58068   Message #916824
Posted By: Stewie
24-Mar-03 - 01:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Utah Phillips songs
Subject: Lyr Add: I REMEMBER LOVING YOU (Herdman+Phillips
I will also add the version of 'I Remember Loving You' with extra verses by Priscilla Herdman - from her 'Darkness Into Light' album Flying Fish FF 70420 in which she duetted with Phillips on the song.

I REMEMBER LOVING YOU
(del Puppo/Chumlevich/Phillips/Herdman
As recorded by Priscilla Herdman and Utah Phillips

I look at these old letters and postcards
From the places where you've been
From the towns you'd find on the railway lines
And the dirty backroom jails that you've been in
And the whispers of the people in the town
You'd been here and they knew
Yes, I remember all these things
But mostly I remember loving you

I look at my brown suitcase
Think of all the places that I've been
The railroad yards and the prison guards
All the dumpy little towns along the stem
And the whispering of the people
As they watch every move that I go through
I remember all these things
Mostly I remember loving you

Chorus:
I remember loving you
Back when the world was new
And I think you loved me too
I remember loving you

Ah, the buckskin smell that I knew so well
When you'd hold me in your arms all in the rain
The night you came from a westbound freight
You were passing through, and you said you couldn't stay
Just an hour we shared, and you said you cared
And you'd come again the next time you are through
Yes, I remember all these things
But mostly I remember loving you

The buckskin smell so the people tell
As we huddled in the boxcar from the rain
The flashing lights that cut the night
The railroad bulls that pulled us off the train
When the norther' blows and the winter's cold
And I'm huddled in the corner 'til I'm blue
I remember all those things
Mostly I remember loving you

Chorus

When the northern blows and I'm lying cold in my bed
And I can't sleep for thoughts of you
And you're out somewhere in a jungle camp or a boxcar
Where you're freezing 'til you're blue
Close by your side, everywhere you ride
And you're with me in everything I do
Yes, I remember all these things
But mostly I remember loving you

The winter streets where the frozen sleet
Come soaking through the cardboard in my shoes
Where the promised land might be a place
Where a man could find free cigarettes and booze
The alleyways full of ragged strays
The doorway wine I tell my troubles to
Yeah, I remember all those things
Mostly I remember loving you

Chorus

Stewie, here's how I'd transcribe the second-last verse: -Joe Offer-