Lyr Req: I'm on My Way Somewhere (Grandpa Jones)

18 Dec 00 - 11:40 AM (#359064)
Subject: Louisville was Eight Miles Back
From: GUEST,Redbird

Need Lyrics for a Grandpa Jones song: "Louisville was Eight Miles Back". It is probably sung to the same tune as "Eight More Miles to Louisville" although I am not familiar with the latter.

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18 Dec 00 - 11:46 AM (#359068)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louisville was Eight Miles Back
From: GUEST,Redbird

OOPS. It is "Louisville IS eight miles back"---and I'm on my way somewhere-----sorry

Redbird

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25 Jul 02 - 12:18 AM (#754195)
Subject: Lyr Add: I'M ON MY WAY SOMEWHERE (Grandpa Jones)
From: Jim Dixon

Copied from http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~motoya/I/Im_on_my_way_somewhere.html
(Well, the Google cache, actually.)

I'M ON MY WAY SOMEWHERE

When Louisville was eight more miles away, my old heart sung a song.
Well, I thought I'd hug kiss my gal before so very long.
But when I got to Louisville, I found she wasn't true.
So I'll tell you all about it now. That's why I feel so blue.

CHO: When I got to Louisville, my gal she wasn't there.
They said she'd gone with someone else. It was more than I could bear.
So I'm heading out of this old town, where to, I don't much care.
Louisville is eight miles back and I'm on my way somewhere.

I always dreamed of some sweet day when she could be my wife
And we would settle down somewhere and lead a happy life.
But now I know just how things are and how they'd always be,
So I know now Louisville just ain't the place for me.

Right now I'm traveling down this road to get her off my mind.
The thing I want to do is leave old Louisville behind.
Who knows? I may find happiness and one who fills the bill,
A girl that's true and not like her that lives in Louisville.

[Grandpa Jones recorded this, and it's obviously a follow-up to his more famous song, "Eight More Miles to Louisville," which has been discussed here and here. Both songs were reissued on the album "The Grandpa Jones Story," CMH LP #9007, 1976.]

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