Thursday, May 26, 2016

ATF: Fading Memories

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



Y’all Come Back Saloon
The Oak Ridge Boys
She played
Tambourine
With a
Silver jingle
And she must have known the words
To at least a million tunes
But the one most requested
By the man she knew as Cowboy
Was the late night benediction
At the Y'all Come Back Saloon

In a voice soft and trembling
She'd sing her song to cowboy
As a smoky halo circled ‘round
Her raven hair
And all the fallen angels
And pinball playing rounders
Stopped the games that they'd been playing
For the losers evening prayer

Faded love
And faded memories
How they linger
In her mind
Miles and years played the cowboy
Like an old melody
Out of tune
And out of time

Every night in the shadows
Thinking back on Amarillo
He'd dream of better days
And ask for faded love
Lifting high his glass in honor
Of the lady and her song
He paid his check
Then lonely walked
That broken cowboy home

She played
Tambourine
With a
Silver jingle
And she must have known the words
To at least a million tunes
But the one most requested
By the man she knew as Cowboy
Was the late night benediction
At the Y'all Come Back Saloon
She played
Tambourine
With a
Silver jingle
And she must have known the words
To at least a million tunes
But the one most requested
By the man she knew as Cowboy
Was the late night benediction
At the Y'all Come Back Saloon
She played
Tambourine
With a
Silver jingle
And she must have known the words
To at least a million tunes
But the one most requested
By the man she knew as Cowboy
Was the late night benediction
At the Y'all Come Back Saloon
ut the one most requested
By the man she knew as Cowboy
Was the late night benediction at the
Y'all Come Back Saloon



1979
The Smashing Pumpkins
Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I
Should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end
To it all

And I don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust
I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin dues
Down to see
That we don't even care
As restless as we are
We feel
The pull
In the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement
Lamented
And assured
To the lights
And towns below
Faster than
The speed of sound
Faster than
We thought we'd go
Beneath the sound
Of hope

Justine never knew the rules
Hung down
With the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it

To see
That we don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust
I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
The street heats
The urgency of now
As you see
There's no one around

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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12 comments:

  1. I have been a fan of the oak ridge boys since I saw them in concert 1980 Reno NV

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Kim!!! The Oak Ridge Boys have been performing down in Branson (around 45 miles south of us) for several years, but we have never went to any of the shows. Back when we were healthy enough to see the stars down in Branson, there was not any time to do it for this or that reason, and now that we cannot go because of very poor health, we have all sorts of supposedly free time. Sigh. By the way, I liked the Reno area A LOT better than I did Las Vegas back while I was still out on the truck.

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  2. I used to have an Oak Ridge Boys Christmas CD but never any of their others.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! I can't remember having any of their albums, but I sure heard them a lot on the radio back in the day.

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  3. Oh yes, good picks. Thank you for sharing.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Martin!!! You are most welcome.

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  4. I once met the man who managed the Smashing Pumpkins before Sharon Osbourne. At the time I hadn't heard of the band. Shows how ignorant I was!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Jenny!!! I didn't know that Sharon managed them. This is their only song I know of that I can enjoy.

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  5. Well I'm not coming back for that!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Adullamite!!! Are you sure you are indeed a true Scot?

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  6. Jerry. I replied in email that it's a wonderful idea.Please share Intangible Hearts.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear IH!!! I didn't get the email, but I got the message. Thank you.

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