Help! What is this song? It was a Hank Williams song I heard on the radio a couple of years ago. I cant remember the exact lyrics but they were slightly gospel-y. It started off about nature blooming and the grass is green and so forth. A couple of verses later it gets darker and he sings about nature dying. Sorry for being vague but I cant remember it all that well except that it was fantastic. It's not on his best of and I sent an e-mail to the DJ but the bollix never answered me. I'm sure someone here can help me out.
― Michael Bourke, Friday, 9 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I like these challenges. I think it's called 'Alone & Forsaken', Michael.
ALONE AND FORSAKEN
Words and music by Hank Williams, Sr.
We [Am] met in the springtime when blossoms unfold
The pastures were green and the [E7] meadows were [Am] gold
Our love was in flower as summer grew on
Her love like the leaves now has [E7] withered and [Am] gone.
The roses have faded, there's frost at my door
The birds in the morning don't [E7*] sing any-[Am] more
The grass in the valley is starting to die
And out in the darkness the [E7] whippoorwills [Am] cry.
Refrain
A-[F] lone and forsaken by [C] fate and by man
Oh, Lord, if You hear me please [Am] hold to my hand
Oh, [E7] please under-[Am] stand.
Oh, where has she gone to, oh, where can she be
She may have forsaken some other like me
She promised to honor, to love and obey
Each vow was a plaything that she threw away.
The darkness is falling, the sky has turned gray
A hound in the distance is starting to "BAY"
I wonder, I wonder - what she's thinking of
Forsaken, forgotten - without any love.
Refrain
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/SongUnid/C25EF515AE86B0424825
697B0034ED24
found by:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22Hank+Williams%22
+grass+lyrics+green
― Nick, Friday, 9 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
also:
http://www.salon.com/ent/col/marc/2001/03/05/marcus30/index1.html (#9)
― matthew stevens, Friday, 9 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)