Conway Twitty

Play, Guitar, Play

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Play, guitar play
Take me back to yesterday
Let me see, cotton growing, in the fields
Let me hear, my momma calling

Look a-yonder ya-all who's coming
Down the road, he's a coming home
But they know I never will
I left them living with that awful thing I done

I didn't tell them I just packed my clothes and run
Play, guitar play
Help me through another day
Help me make another dollar, before I go

We got time, for one more song
Then we'll have to move along
Another town, another crowd
Lord I wonder if they know

Can they read between the lines in my song
As I sing about a good boy that's went wrong
Guitar we got years to kill
We got to climb that distant hill

I wonder if they think of me
Guitar play

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by Dan1965

3y ago

I’ve often wondered what the meaning of this song meant,was it based on a true event that burdened the heart of someone so bad,that they could never go home to stay again ? Or was it just a song made up, honestly, I find that hard to believe with the words, and the pain I often feel myself deep inside about my home town. A lot of sad memories, things that hurt me deeply from those days, and it feels my life since has been filled with pain, and loneliness. Not of things that I did,well a few childhood things, but other painful memories, that were really bad, really bad that I and my family endured. Anyway, if anyone knows the meaning behind the lyrics,if their is,are true ones,a story,I’d really like to know. Thank you,and God bless

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