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Friday, March 21, 2008

a Hank Snow song........



I like the lyrics in this song:


WHEN JIMMIE RODGERS SAID GOODBYE


There's an old guitar that's lonely
Since the master's gone away
But he's singing to the angels
Way up in Heaven today.

He left a blue song for the brakeman
And to the kiddies a lullaby
To all sweethearts he left a lovesong
When Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye.

He left a yodel for the cowboy
They sing it now with tear dimmed eye
And he left every prairie lonely
When Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye.

They miss him down in Alabama
Across the world you can hear them say
Mississippi lost their blue yodeler
When Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye.

Although the freight trains keep on running
He caught a fast one on the fly
But he left his guitar behind him
When Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye.

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