Chamberlain Lonesome Song lyrics

Sun on the hillsides
The river tells the trains to ride on
Like they're racing that going sun
The main drag knocks along

Summer dames take their dresses
For a walk down on the courthouse lawn
And I walk the long mile of the exile
I guess I always will

Now the sun slides
On the west side down behind the hills
It's been a lonesome song of a day
I'd just as soon dodge the moon
As I'd try and dodge the thought of you
Everyday's a song and you're the proof

It wasn't so long ago when you put me out of doors
With nothing but a suitcase full of poems
You said I was sunlight at midnight
A poet with the sea on my lips


You said my life rhymes
With the lonesome lines
That drip from my fingertips
It's been a lonesome song of a day

There's a book I been meaning to write
About how my words
Are the proof that I'm alive
But it would take me ten lifetimes

So until I lay down for good
I'm gonna live each day the way I should
Like it's the best song I've ever heard
You said I was sunlight at midnight
A poet with the sea on my lips

And now the sun slides
On the west side down behind the hills
And it's a lonesome song of a day