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A beautiful song and a real tearjerker.


BLUE SIDE OF LONESOME

(Leon Payne)

Jim Reeves - 1962


I'm calling to tell you it's over

Yes, darling you're now free to go

You're saying you're sorry you hurt me

But you've hurt me much more than you know


You're asking' me where this call comes from

Oh, I hope that you won't end up here

If you're new romance turns out a failure

Here's where to find me my dear


I'm just on the blue side of lonesome

Right next to the Heartbreak Hotel

In a tavern that's known as Three Teardrops

On a bar stool, not doing' so well


The floor has a carpet of sorrow

But no one can weep in the aisle

And they say someone broke the bar mirror

With only the ghost of a smile


The hands on the clock never alter

For things never change in this place

There's no present, no past, no future

We're the ones who have lost in love's race


I'm just on the blue side of lonesome

Right next to the Heartbreak Hotel

In a tavern that's known as Three Teardrops

On a bar stool, not doing' so well.

Ratty my Dad passed away this time last year. I'm an orphan now...blub blub .Who is the In The Living Years By then?

Just looked it up, Mike and his boring Mechanics. Ugh! Everyone to there own I suppose.


Try listening to the Ronnie Lane song Debris on Nods As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse album by The Faces if you want to hear a really good father/son type of song.

Damn sorry to hear that Jah Lush. In the Living Years is for me a real tear jerker, especially as the lyrics speak of having your first kiddy and them reminding you of ya dad! It happened to me 4 weeks ago as my first one popped out looking just like the old man! :*( - Lump in throat as typing this....

For me Will Oldham has that sort of haunting voice that makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck.


The late, great Johnny Cash did a cover which is perhaps instilled with more gravitas, but if we have to admit crying to a song, then I'll go for the original. I suspect many of these choices hold personal meaning, however, and don't often resonate with many others.


Bonny Prince Bill (aka WIll Oldham) - I See A Darkness

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