On May 1, 7:51 pm, Jerry Dallal <gdal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Fiddlin'blues wrote:
> > Does anyone know where I can find the lyrics to "Memories ( Memories
> > Waltz)" by the Leake County Revelers? I've tried to decipher them and
> > I think real accuracy here might be impossible. I looked in the
> > Guthrie Meade book "Country Music Sources" and searched on the other
> > artists who sang/recorded it, with no results.
>
> > -RC
>
> Round me at twilight come stealing
> Shadows of days that are gone
> Dreams of the old days revealing
> Memories of sweet golden dawn
>
> Memories, memories
> Dreams of love so true
> O'er the sea of memory
> I'm drifting back to you
>
> Childhood days, wildwood days
> Among the birds and bees
> You left me alone, but still you're my own
> In my beautiful memories
I remember it being in a songbook we used at my elementary school in
the suburbs of Cleveland. It was one of the nuns' favorites, so we had
to learn it for a pageant. I didn't hear it again until getting the
compilation of the Leake County Revelers, and I finally started liking
it.
-Kerry
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