SWEET MEMORIES
(Mickey Newbury)


Mickey Newbury - 1968
Andy Williams - 1968
Willie Nelson - 1968
Don Gibson & Dottie West - 1968
Ray Charles - 1970
Ray Price - 1971
Buffy Sainte-Marie - 1972
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - 1972
Jerry Reed - 1972
Hank Locklin - 1972
Brenda Lee - 1973
The Everly Brothers - 1973
Conway Twitty - 1973
Sue Thompson - 1974
Tumbleweeds - 1976
Ricky Van Shelton & Brenda Lee - 1989
Con Hunley - 2003
Don Cherry & Willie Nelson - 2007
Roseanne Cash - 2009

Also recorded by:
Etta James; Anita Carter ........ and others.





Sweet memories, sweet memories

My world is like a river, as dark as it is deep
Night after night the past slips in and gathers all my sleep
My days are just an endless stream of emptiness to me
Filled only by the fleeting moments of her memories

Sweet memories, sweet memories

(Instrumental Break)

She slipped into the silence of my dreams again last night
Wandering from room to room, she's turning on each light
Her laughter spills like water from the river to the sea
And I'm swept away from sadness clinging to her memory

Sweet memories, sweet memories






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2012)