Marty Robbins - The Blues, Country Style (Memories In Song)
Marty Robbins - The Blues, Country Style (Memories In Song)
The city streets are friendless and cold
I walk them mile after mile
I'm a country boy a-singin' the blues
The blues, country style
Nobody stops to tell me hello
Not even one friendly smile
I'm a country boy alone with the blues
The blues, country style
One hundred tears make one city block
Two thousand tears make a mile
I'm a country boy with miles of blues
The blues, country style
Tonight, in dreams, I'm goin' back home
And I'll be happy awhile
But I know at dawn, I wake with the blues
The blues, country style
I'm a country boy a-singin' the blues
The blues, country style
Marty Robbins Sings 'The Blues Country Style.' (02:45)
Mitch Miller and Ray Conniff recorded Marty on this fine Mack David/Jerry Livingston ballad in
Hollywood in 1958. It was the flip side of 'The Hanging Tree', with featured another highly
appealing Robbins performance.
I love all Marty's songs, but this 1 is one of my most treasured gifts he gave us all. Yeah, humanity should come first and the rest would follow, but the greed for money and success and exhibition has taken the upper hand so that 1 feels a stranger as soon as he walks out of his door. Too bad, but we can still remedy if we really want and our children will live in a better world, humanity wise, that is. Selfishness is the mother of all evels, it's high time we realize it.
Thanks so much!
Autor: Richardironheart - 1 year, 2 months ago
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love this story! this stuff is what makes youutube. ok, and the music =)
Autor: dlowellray - 5 months, 3 weeks ago
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One of my favorites cut can't find it anywhere to download. Lived in Europe in early 60s & EPs (4 songs on a 7" vinyl) were the favorites over LPs. I bought Marty's Hanging Tree with this song & Ain't I the Lucky One & can't remember the 4th song. Once on Midnight Special he was hosting with Loretta Lynn and she was drowning him out so he started just lip syncing the song & she caught on after about 5 seconds & hit him so hard he nearly fell off the staircase. God, I love em' both.