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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:
When the norther 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 I'm 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