ENDLESS SLEEP
(Dolores Nance / Jody Reynolds)

Jody Reynolds - 1958
Mart Wilde - 1958

Also recorded by: The Beach Boys; Savoy Brown; The Judds;
Tav Falco; Billy Idol; John Fogerty; Robert Gordon; T.Rex;
The Spell; Jimmy Witherspoon; Joey Welz; Hank Williams Jr;
The Hondells; Vince Taylor; Orion: ........... and others.



The night was black, rain fallin' down
Looked for my baby, she's nowhere around
Traced her footsteps down to the shore
‘fraid she's gone forever more
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say
I took your baby from you away.
I heard a voice cryin' in the deep
Come join me, baby, in my endless sleep.

Why did we quarrel, why did we fight?
Why did I leave her alone tonight?
That's why her footsteps ran into the sea
That's why my baby has gone from me.
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say
I took your baby from you away.
I heard a voice cryin' in the deep
Come join me, baby, in my endless sleep.

Ran in the water, heart full of fear
There in the breakers I saw her near
Reached for my darlin', held her to me
Stole her away from the angry sea
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say
You took your baby from me away.
My heart cried out she's mine to keep
I saved my baby from an endless sleep.

[Fade]
Endless sleep, endless sleep




(Contributed by =Ae= - November 2008)