Lyr Req: Mississippi (from Barbara Fairchild)

31 Jul 98 - 12:01 PM (#33788)
Subject: Song Lyrics to "Mississippi"
From: [e-mail]

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

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31 Jul 98 - 01:15 PM (#33792)
Subject: RE:
From: Joe Offer

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-

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31 Jul 98 - 05:11 PM (#33802)
Subject: RE:
From: Gene

Or was it Crystal Gayle?

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01 Aug 98 - 11:46 AM (#33862)
Subject: RE: "Mississippi"
From: Marymck

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!

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30 Aug 98 - 04:51 PM (#36477)
Subject: Lyr Add: MISSISSIPPI YOU'RE ON MY MIND (Winchester
From: Gene

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

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31 Aug 98 - 06:01 AM (#36565)
Subject: Lyr Add: MISSISSIPPI (W. Theunissen)
From: Ted from Australia

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

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31 Aug 98 - 06:04 AM (#36566)
Subject: RE:
From: Ted from Australia

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

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