Lyr Req: Mississippi (from Barbara Fairchild)

Subject: Song Lyrics to "Mississippi"
From:
Date: 31 Jul 98 - 12:01 PM

I heard this song many years ago and I believe the artist who recorded and sang it was Barbara Fairchild. Have looked everywhere for the words, but cannot find it. If you have the words, I would really like to get them.

Thanks!

MaryMck

Subject: RE:
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jul 98 - 01:15 PM

Hi, Mary - can you give us a little more to go on, maybe a few phrases you might remember? One that comes to mind is "Miss the Mississippi and you," but I'll bet there are scads of songs with the name "Mississippi."
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE:
From: Gene
Date: 31 Jul 98 - 05:11 PM

Or was it Crystal Gayle?

Subject: RE: "Mississippi"
From: Marymck
Date: 01 Aug 98 - 11:46 AM

It wasn't Crystal Gayle--this song was on a record,probably before Crystal was born.

The few lines I can remember are:

Mississippi, You've been on my mind. Whenever I shall go away I'll be longing for the day When I can be in Greenville, again.

Thanks!

Subject: Lyr Add: MISSISSIPPI YOU'RE ON MY MIND (Winchester
From: Gene
Date: 30 Aug 98 - 04:51 PM

Refresh post!

Found the following - don't know if it's THE MISSISSIPPI you are looking for.

MISSISSIPPI YOU'RE ON MY MIND
Jesse Winchester

I think I see a wagon-rutted road
With the weed growin' tall between the tracks
And along one side runs a rusty barbed wire fence
And beyond that sits an old tar paper shack.

CHORUS
Mississippi you're on my mind
Mississippi you're on my mind
Oh, oh, Mississippi - you're on my mind.

I think I hear a noisy old John Deere
In a field specked with dirty cotton lint
And below that field runs a little shady creek
And there you'll find the cool green leaves of mint.

CHORUS

I think I smell the honeysuckle vine
The heavy sweetness like to make me sick
And the dogs, my brood, they're hungry all the time
And snakes are sleepin' where the weeds are thick.

I think I feel an angry oven heat
The southern sun just blazes in the sky
In the dusty weeds a fat old grasshopper jumps
I got to make it to that creek before I fry.

CHORUS

Subject: Lyr Add: MISSISSIPPI (W. Theunissen)
From: Ted from Australia
Date: 31 Aug 98 - 06:01 AM

Mary I think this is what you are looking for
Regards Ted

MISSISSIPPI
W. Theunissen. 1976.
Recorded by Pussycat.

1. Where you can hear a country song from far
And someone plays the honky-tonk guitar
Where all the lights will go out one by one,
The people join the song And the wind takes it away.

CHORUS: Oh, Mississippi, I remember you.
Whenever I should go away
I'll be longing for the day
That I will be in Greenville again.
Mississippi, you'll be on my mind
Every time I hear this song.
Mississippi, roll along until the end of time.

2. Where the Mississippi rolls down to the sea
And lovers found the place they like to be
How many times before this song was ending,
Love and understanding everywhere around. CHORUS

3. Now the country song forever lost its soul
When the guitar player turned to rock and roll
But every time when summer nights are falling
I always will be recalling dreams of yesterday. CHORUS

Subject: RE:
From: Ted from Australia
Date: 31 Aug 98 - 06:04 AM

Let me know if you need the chords Regards Ted [e-mail]