• Alright
  
  I've been down this road before
  I remember every tree
  Every single blade of grass
  Holds a special place for me
  And I remember every town
  And every hotel room
  Every song I ever sang
  On a guitar out of tune
  
  I remember everything
  Things I can't forget
  The way you turned and smiled on me
  On the night that we first met
  And I remember every night
  Your ocean eyes of blue
  How I miss you in the morning light
  Like roses miss the dew
  
  I've been down this road before
  Alone as I can be
  Careful not to let my past
  Go sneaking up on me
  Got no future in my happiness
  Though regrets are very few
  Sometimes a little tenderness
  Was the best that I could do
  
  I remember everything
  Things I can't forget
  Swimming pools of butterflies
  That slipped right through the net
  And I remember every night
  Your ocean eyes of blue
  How I miss you in the morning light
  Like roses miss the dew
  
  How I miss you in the morning light
  Like roses miss the dew Writer/s: John E Prine, Pat Mclaughlin
  Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Wixen Music Publishing
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

• Maria Nunes from Roseburg OregonI encountered John Prine at a friends house in 1973. I learned all the words and would go to work and try to sing the songs so we could sing along together. I am not a singer, but I had the idea if we could sing Sam Stone in barbershop it would become my workmates favorite tune.m we never sang it but they learned the words to some of those songs and would recite them at glorisly inappropriate times. Even years afterwords one workmate would walk up to me and begin. Those songs made me so happy.
  I collected John Prine albums but that was difficult in the places I lived. Not a lot of places to go search plus always a broke single mother.
  My 58 year old son loves John Prine and plays him regularly. I just sent him the name of a song I play often, In Spite of Ourselves.
  My husband wants to see Trump charged with John’s murder because of how he put the Covid 19 pandemic onto the American people especially on John Prine.
• Eric from OregonThe first time I heard this song, my impression was that it was a love song from John to, well, everybody. Fiona, his fans, Americans, etc.

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