Lyr Req: ...she's laying on a cold marble sla

11 Sep 00 - 09:37 AM (#294962)
Subject: ...she's laying on a cold marble slab...
From: Alice

I have been asked to find the lyrics to a song heard many years ago on the Grand Ole Opry. The only part of the lyrics remembered, "she's laying on a cold marble slab in the morgue..."

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11 Sep 00 - 10:33 AM (#294996)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...she's laying on a cold marble sla
From: Sorcha

Alice, no luck at all on lyrics, here is what I found:

http://www.camsco.com/artists/bluesky.html, A CD of Blue Sky Boys with the song on it, available from Camsco, and

Title: Unloved and unclaimed.
First Line: There were no loved ones to weep over her
Chorus: She lay on a cold marble slab at the morgue
Music by:
Words by: Acuff, Roy and Vito Pellettieri.
P/P/D: Nashville, TN : Acuff-Rose, C1948.
Location: SPC, KIRK CM 1940-1949
Sheet music in a collection at http://cml.indstate.edu/rare/kirk/country.html
They have an e mail address for queries, maybe they would send them to you. Since it is 1948, it is still under copyright. Sorry, maybe this will help somebody else find it.

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11 Sep 00 - 12:55 PM (#295070)
Subject: Lyr Add: UNLOVED AND UNCLAIMED (from Roy Acuff)
From: kendall

I got this from Roy Acuff back in the 40's

UNLOVED AND UNCLAIMED

There was no loved one to weep over her
Not one tear did I see shed
For the lady they took from that muddy old river
No one ever came to claim their dead.

Chorus

She laid on a cold marble slab at the morgue
Thousands viewed he but none knew her name
They laid her to rest in Potters Fiels this Morn'
She will sleep there unloved and unclaimed.
repeat chorus Inside the purse that she clutched in her hane
Was written, "Blame no one but me."
As I gazed at her face, I couldn't help but think
What a cruel wicked place this world can be.

repeat chorus

Now the muddy old river has taken her life
And the cold earth will hold her remains
I pray when she reaches that perly golden gate
She wont be unloved and unclaimed.

repeat chorus

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11 Sep 00 - 12:58 PM (#295073)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...she's laying on a cold marble sla
From: kendall

thats Potters FIELD and clutched in her HAND..

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11 Sep 00 - 01:14 PM (#295084)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...she's laying on a cold marble sla
From: Sorcha

Wow, Malcolm!

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11 Sep 00 - 02:43 PM (#295131)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...she's laying on a cold marble sla
From: Alice

Hey, thanks. My friend is going to be blown away. His dad has looked for this for many years.

Alice

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11 Sep 00 - 07:12 PM (#295285)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...she's laying on a cold marble sla
From: kendall

my head is full of this old stuff

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