Turning Each Memory Into A Perfect Summertime

Turning Each Memory Into A Perfect Summertime

By : George Waldrop

I'm too tired to pretend, I don't want to be alone
camping hippies camping in a tent
coughing up through the congestion
a sack in a poke, a satchel for smoke
bail of hay, from the swag wagon slag
one hand on the handle of the road
the other hand on the cover of shelter
we've learned all our lessons, confessions &
good-time rounders found along the trail
pathway walking the path to a bath under
the waterfall or on the rocks at the river
berries, mushrooms, mirrors, costumes
summer is here and the time is right for sex
I remember you in that july picnic daylight
rice & bean tacos, snapples, garlic hummus
sandwiches with fresh tomatoes, cukes & onion
memories of a memory, reflections of connections
a pure innocence unplagued with reality of poverty
the romantic way we looked at our lives so free
the 40 ounce bottle is half empty now of this life
if I saw you now I'm sure we would express pleasantries
but I hang on to my memories like ashes in the fireplace
and pour the gray burn dust on the flower bed of my mind
my time, time to understand just what we had
to know where to go, to know what we needed
like cattle and sheep, I now feel aged, lost & weak
I can relive that friendship in my mind that age, space & time
a lucky dream, daytime rope swing, summer fling
acid laugh, cigarette ash, tapestry of happy faces
we had some hair, folksing waxing, down to there hair
can you remember me? alive, real & feeling free, that was me
I'm too tired to pretend, I don't want to be alone

1. Old School Friends [Texas Hobart]
   Honeyhoney

2. Calling All Friends [KMBone]
   Low Stars

3. All Summer Long
   Kid Rock

4. Later Operator
   All Girl Summer Fun Band

5. As Long As We Got Each Other (Growing Pains Theme)
   B.J. Thomas and Dusty Springfield

6. Belle Starr
   Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris

7. That Was Me
   Todd Snider

8. Sentimental Fool
   Lloyd Cole

9. Tennessee Jed
   Levon Helm

10. Fields Of Summer
    Nanci Griffith

11. Trumpet Vine
    Kathy Kallick

12. Dreams and Gasoline
    Rob Baird

13. Don't Let The Sunshine Fool You
    Townes Van Zandt

14. Nightswimming
    R.E.M.

15. My Old Drunk Friend
    Freakwater

16. CBGB's
    Syd Straw

17. Galbraith Street
    Amy Speace

18. Last Thing I Remember
    No River City

19. Turning Each Memory Into A Perfect Summertime
    George Waldrop

20. Summer Of Drugs                
    Victoria Williams

 

 

 

 

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