GRGR(4) Don't Wait For Me

Keith McMullen mcmullenm at vcss.k12.ca.us
Mon Jun 14 02:28:25 CDT 1999


Got in later than I thought...he just wouldn't quit singing...so I'm
going to sleep in, relatively speaking...but don't let that stop
you...dig in to the Kenosha Kid passage...Waits sang a version of this
tune that was worth twice the price of admission...It is an appropriate
playlist addition for the opening of GRGR(4)...now I'm off to some
dreams of my own:

           Innocent When You Dream

             (Tom Waits)

          The bats are in the belfry
          the dew is on the moor
          where are the arms that held me
          and pledged her love before
          and pledged her love before
          Chorus:
          It's such a sad old feeling
          the fields are soft and green
          it's memories that I'm stealing
          but you're innocent when you dream
          when you dream
          you're innocent when you dream
          Running through the graveyard
          we laughed my friends and I
          we swore we'd be together 
          until the day we died
          until the day we died
          Repeat chorus
          I made a golden promise
          that we would never part
          I gave my love a locket 
          and then I broke her heart 
          and then I broke her heart
          Repeat chorus



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