I Remember Loving You

I Remember Loving You Priscilla Herdman and Utah Phillips I look a these old letters And postcards from where you've been From the towns you find on the railway line And the dirty backroom jails that you've been in And the whispers of the people in the town You've been here and they knew Yes I remember all these things But mostly I remember loving you. I look at my brown suitcase Think of all the places that I've been Railroad yards and prison guards All the dumpy little towns along the stem And the whispering of the people As they watch every move that I go through I remember all those things, Mostly I remember loving you. I remember loving you Back when the world was new And I think you loved me too I remember loving you Ah the buckskin smell that I knew so well When you'd hold me in your arms all in in the rain The night you came from a westbound freight You were passing through and you said you couldn't stay Just an hour we shared and you said you cared And you'd come again the next time you were passing through Yes I remember all those things, But mostly I remember loving you. The buckskin smells so the people tell As we huddled in the boxcar from the rain The flashing lights that cut the night The railroad bulls that pulled us off the train When the winter's cold and the Northern blows I'm huddled in the corner 'til I'm blue I remember all these things Mostly I remember loving you I remember loving you Back when the world was new And I think you loved me too I remember loving you When the northern blows and I'm lying cold in my bed And I can't sleep with thoughts of you And you're out somewhere in a jungle camp Or a boxcar and you're freezing till you're blue Close by your side everywhere you ride And you're with me in everything I do Yes I remember all those things But mostly I remember loving you The winter streets where the frozen sleet Comes soaking through the cardboard in my shoes Where the promised land might be a place Where a man could find free cigarettes and booze The alleyways full of ragged strays The doorway wine I tell my troubles to Yeah, I remember all these things Mostly I remember loving you I remember loving you, Back when the world was new And I think you loved me too I remember loving you I remember loving you Back when the world was new And I think you loved me too I remember loving you