Lyr ADD: Stately Mansions Emmy Lou & Bryan Bowers

Subject: Lyr Req: Stately Mansions Emmy Lou & Bryan Bower
From: open mike
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 02:15 PM

Looking for this song..any one have it?
not sure what recording it is from.
Bryan Bowers has a new one out..
Bristlecone Pine. And Emmy Lou
recently did one with Mark Knofphler.

Subject: Lyr Add: STATELY MANSIONS (Bryan Bowers)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 08:44 PM

Lyrics were posted in an old thread called Lyr Req: 4 Wet Pigs (which happens to be another song that Bryan Bowers recorded, though he didn't write it). The person who posted it called it STATELY MANSION (singular). Since it's hard to find there, I'll copy it here:

STATELY MANSIONS
Bryan Bowers

I was once a stately mansion
Back around Civil War time.
Hard times they have fallen on me.
Now I am past my prime.

That day the owner left for war,
It seemed as if my world was reeling.
The South lost, though Lord knows she tried,
And now my paint is cracked and peeling.

Now my boards are bare, and who's to care?
My yard is overgrown. My roof is old.
To children, I am haunted. To myself, I am tired.
I'm just an old wood house down the road.

I'm just an old wood house down the road.

[Sung by Bryan Bowers on "Home, Home on the Road," Flying Fish CD #91, 1980. Allmusic.com doesn't list any other recordings.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stately Mansions Emmy Lou & Bryan Bower
From: GUEST,Elle
Date: 25 Feb 22 - 09:11 AM

Sweetest song. I love to listen. When I was young I saw this from one side and now I really relate.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stately Mansions Emmy Lou & Bryan Bower
From: leeneia
Date: 28 Feb 22 - 12:15 AM

Thanks for posting, Joe. That's an interesting song.