REMEMBERING
(Jerry Reed Hubbard)


Jerry Reed - 1968
Margie Bowes - 1968
Ray Price - 1968
Mel Tillis - 1972
Johnny Russell - 1973
Chet Atkins (Instr.) - 1974


Every night I go down to the same little joint
Fill up my glass till I've reached the point past rememb'ring
Where the music is loud, the conversation is free
A dance or two with someone to keep me from rememb'ring

The fool I've been, the hurt I've caused
The good woman that I loved and lost
For she's constantly with me in memory
I'd go home but I couldn't sleep
And after hours I'd be walkin' the streets rememb'ring

A good woman's love is hard to find
And my woman's love was just that kind

And I'm the reason that she's gone today
I miss her so and the price that I pay is rememb'ring
I take her to sleep in my dreams every night
Then start all over in the morning light rememb'ring

The way it was when she loved me 
Then like a fool how I carelessly broke her heart 
Then watched my world fall apart
I'd give this world for yesterday 
Just to have her love me the way I remember
Just to have her love me the way I remember






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2012)