WHERE'VE YOU BEEN?
(Jon Vezner / Don Henry)

Kathy Mattea - 1988
Tony Kenny - 1991
Jon Vezner - 1994
David Gurland - 1997
Natalie Douglas - 1999
Patti Page - 2000
Jon Philip Alman - 2005
Laini Risto - 2006

Also recorded by: Don Henry




Claire had all but given up when she and Edwin fell in love
She touched his face and shook her head in disbelief she sighed and said
In many dreams I've held you near, but now at last you're really here

Where've you been, I've looked for you forever and a day
Where've you been, I'm just not myself when you're away

He asked her for her hand for life and she became a salesman's wife
He was home each night by eight, but one stormy evenin' he was late
Her frightened tears fell to the floor until his key turned in the door

Where've you been, I've looked for you forever and a day
Where've you been, I'm just not myself when you're away

They'd never spent a night apart, for sixty years she heard him snore
Now they're in a hospital in separate beds on different floors

Claire soon lost her memory, forgot the names of family
She never spoke a word again, then one day they wheeled him in
He held her hand and stroked her head, and in a fragile voice she said

Where've you been, I've looked for you forever and a day
Where've you been, I'm just not myself when you're away
No, I'm just not myself when you're away



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2011)