Lyr ADD: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget

Subject: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
From: GUEST,ADalton
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 08:43 PM

Do you know if there is anywhere I can find lyrics to this original version of “I’m Thinking Tonight of my Blue Eyes”? I have the 78, and while some verses are clearly the same or similar to those sung by later musicians, there are others I can’t make out and seem to be completely different. Any help would be appreciated!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 09:59 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZRSBHE_IvE

The lyrics are posted just below the screen. That's the Carter Family rendition which I think is the one you want.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 10:03 AM

Sorry. I got sidetracked. Which song are you looking for? 'Thrills I Can't Forget' or 'I'm Thinking Tonight of my Blue Eyes'??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 01:24 PM

"Thrills That I Can't Forget." Some of the lyrics sound the same as the Carter Family, but there are others I don't recognize from there. Thanks for responding, though!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 05:28 PM

Welby Toomey recorded also under the name John Ferguson.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
From: cnd
Date: 04 Aug 20 - 06:57 PM

You can hear it here (as Starship rightly suggested, it was recorded under his alias name of Ferguson). You can also hear a much better quality recording at https://lostsongs.home.blog/2019/03/20/welby-toomey/

Here's my attempt at transcribing the lyrics. I got a lot of help from a looking at several different versions of "The Broken Heart" and Blue Eyes (I've closed several while searching for lyrics I thought fit, but a few good sources are here and here)

Like I said, this is my attempt at a transcription, I've filled in questionable spots with guesses marked with question marks but it's not perfect.



THRILLS THAT I CAN'T FORGET
(As recorded by Welby Toomey aka John Ferguson)

Would've been better for us both had we never
In this wide, wicked world, to have met
All the pleasures we've both had together
I am sure, love, I never ever can forget

I have loved you as I have no other
It's a ?death that? has pulled us apart
All our pleasures and hopes, departed
I have struggled in long, laboring pain

You told me you always would love me
And that nothing could come between
Long ago, long ago, (you) departed
Yet those words in my mem'ry are green

Would've been better for us both split as strangers
But it's why should I speak of it now
It had been long since I heard the ?veil? of ?danger?
And a heart broken thought of these vows

When the cold, cold ??? is around me
Would you come, love, and just drop one tear
And tell to the strangers around you
That a heart you have broken lies here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
From: cnd
Date: 04 Aug 20 - 07:08 PM

By the way ADalton, if you have the means to and have a better quality recording that linked above, I'd encourage you to send it my way -- if you're willing and able, of course. Even if just 1 or 2 spots are clearer it could help.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
From: GUEST,Lost Songs
Date: 11 Nov 20 - 04:40 AM

It's not that he recorded under the Ferguson name, than labels used pseudonyms for various reasons: avoiding royalties or raising sales of a popular song by selling sides several times. The Ferguson name wasn't used on Toomey's demand, it was just common use on budget labels.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welby Toomey: Thrills I Can’t Forget
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Sep 22 - 09:48 AM

when i first heard that song i did know the tune as the wild side of life first recorded by hank tomsan in 1952. i did not think that the tune was older than that but my friends did and did write new words. when i got this talking computer i remember my friend put the 1924 song' thrils i can't forget by welbey tumy' and to my point of this song i said to him the carter family song 'i am thinking tonite of my blue eyes' is a slightly different tune to what was first written in 1924. thanks for these threads i really enjoy them from joe