Lonesome Song - Chamberlain

Sun on the hillsides

The river tells the trains to ride on

Like they’re racing that going sun

The main drag knocks along

Summer dames take their dresses for a walk

Down on the courthouse lawn;

And I walk the long mile of the exile

I guess I always will

Now the sun slides on the westside

Down behind the hills

It’s been a lonesome song of a day

I’d just as soon dodge the moon

As I’d try and dodge the thought of you

Everyday’s a song and you’re the proof

It wasn’t so long ago

When you put me out of doors

With nothing but a suitcase full of poems

You said I was sunlight at midnight…

A poet with the sea on my lips

You said my life rhymes with the lonesome lines

That drip from my fingertips

It’s been a lonesome song of a day

There’s a book I been meaning to write

About how my words are the proof that I’m alive

But it would take me ten lifetimes

So until I lay down for good

I’m gonna live each day the way I should

Like it’s the best song I’ve ever heard

You said I was sunlight at midnight…

A poet with the sea on my lips

And now the sun slides on the westside

Down behind the hills

And it’s a lonesome song of a day