Jimmie Dale Gilmore

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp, unstrung Would you hear

Well, you're lookin' at a guy that's gettin' kinda mad I had lot of luck but it's all been

That big eighteen-wheeler, rollin' down the track Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin'

Thirst is not the answer oceans come and go I loved her seven seas worth Lord I loved her so But she let me

When I get these blues, I just look back down that road It's been a while since I laid down that load

Just because of the mood I'm in I know there's more to the weather than the western wind And I feel

I've seen crimson roses growing through a chain link fence I've seen crystal visions, sometimes they

One endless night So very long ago Close as the moment I held someone To be the last To

There she goes, she's magic Do you know why she cries? You see the light of heaven in her eyes

Well, I headed back to the borderland When the home-guard went insane No use trying to work with people

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear

Sally, what can I say about you? That would be true without you With your ribbons hanging rainbows in your

Down by the banks of the Colorado My true love and I one night did lie And we laughed and played and made

It's today you say you're leaving, darlin' Time comes when you must follow your own star And

Seaching for the sunlight On this winter's day. Here in old Missoula, They locked the sun away.