The Memory of Your Smile

—Ralph Stanley

I'm walking from one bar to another
I don't know where I'm going or where I've been
No one I meet realized
I'm trying when I know I can't win

Chorus:
The memory of your smile, it nearly drives me wild
Ain't nothing ever gonna ease my mind
I thought you'd true, I counted so on you
I'm lost from a love I'll never find

I wonder how this pain is going to wind up
It gets worse day by day since you're gone
If only you would come back and see me
You're my only chance from now on

My honey dear, I know you're goin' to ask
Just where I've been since I saw you last
Well I've been down where the hammers clang
Yes I've been down on the old chain gang.

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Chorus:

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