I Remember Loving You

I look at these old letters and postcards

From the places where you've been

From the towns you'd find on the railway lines

And the dirty backroom jails that you've been in

And the whispers of the people in the town

When you'd been here and they knew -

Yes, I remember all these things

But mostly, I remember loving you

I look at my brown suitcase

And think of all the places that I've been

The railroad yards and the prison guards

All the dumpy little towns along the stem

And the whispering of the people

As they watch every move that I go through -

I remember all these things

Mostly, I remember loving you

I remember loving you

Back when the world was new

And I think you loved me, too

I remember loving you

Ah, the buckskin smell that I knew so well

When you'd hold me in your arms all in the rain

The night you came from a westbound freight

You were passing through and you said you couldn't stay

Just an hour we shared and you said you cared

And you'd come again the next time you were through -

Yes, I remember all these things

But mostly, I remember loving you

The buckskin smells, so the people tell

As we huddled in the boxcar from the rain

The flashing lights that cut the night

The railroad bulls that pulled us off the train

When the norther blows and the winter's cold

And I'm huddled in the corner till I'm blue -

I remember all these things

Mostly, I remember loving you

I remember loving you

Back when the world was new

And I think you loved me, too

I remember loving you

When the norther blows and I'm lying cold

In my bed and I can't sleep for thoughts of you

And you're out somewhere in a jungle camp

Or a boxcar where you're freezing till you're blue

I'm close by your side, everywhere you ride

And you're with me in everything I do -

Yes, I remember all these things

But mostly, I remember loving you

The winter streets where the frozen sleet

Comes soaking through the cardboard in my shoes

Where the promised land might be a place

Where a man could find free cigarettes and booze

The alleyways full of ragged strays

The doorway wine I tell my troubles to -

Yeah, I remember all these things

Mostly, I remember loving you

I remember loving you

Back when the world was new

And I think you loved me, too

I remember loving you

I remember loving you

Back when the world was new

And I think you loved me, too

I remember loving you