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Gillian Welch – Wayside / Back In Time lyrics
Standing on the corner with a nickel or a dime
There use to be a rail car to take you down the line
Too much beer and whiskey to ever be employed
And when I got to Nashville, it was too much soldiers joy
Wasted on the wayside, wasted on the way
If I don't go tomorrow, you know I'm gone today

Back baby, back in time
I wanna go back when you were mine
Back baby, back in time
I wanna go back when you were mine

Black highway all night ride
Watching the times fall away to the side
Clear channel way down low
Is comin' in loud and my mind let go

Peaches in the summertime, apples in the fall
If I can't have you all the time, I won't have none at all
Oh, I wish I was in Frisco in a brand new pair of shoes
I'm sittin' here in Nashville with Norman's Nashville blues
So come all you good time rounders listenin' to my sound
And drink a round to Nashville before they tear it down

Back baby, back in time
I wanna go back when you were mine
Back baby, back in time
I wanna go back when you were mine
Hard weather, drivin' slow
Buggies and the hats in town for the show
Oh darlin', the songs they played
All I got left is the love we made

Back baby, back in time
I wanna go back when you were mine
Back baby, back in time
I wanna go back when you were mine
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Standing on the corner with a nickel or a dime There use to be a rail car to take you down the line Too much beer and whiskey to ever be employed And when I got to Nashville, it was too much soldiers joy Wasted on the wayside, wasted on the way If I don't go tomorrow, you know I'm gone today Back baby, back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Back baby, back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Black highway all night ride Watching the times fall away to the side Clear channel way down low Is comin' in loud and my mind let go Peaches in the summertime, apples in the fall If I can't have you all the time, I won't have none at all Oh, I wish I was in Frisco in a brand new pair of shoes I'm sittin' here in Nashville with Norman's Nashville blues So come all you good time rounders listenin' to my sound And drink a round to Nashville before they tear it down Back baby, back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Back baby, back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Hard weather, drivin' slow Buggies and the hats in town for the show Oh darlin', the songs they played All I got left is the love we made Back baby, back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Back baby, back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Explain Request ×



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Songwriters: David Todd Rawlings, Gillian Howard Welch
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