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Bill Anderson Lyrics for Song: Shirt
 Lyrics for Album: Love Is a Sometimes Thing [Decca] [1970]
 
 
 
 22990>(Bill Anderson - Mike Strickland)
 
 
 
 Last night I was preparing to go to a party
 
 And on the rack with my suits
 
 I found the shirt that I'd worn
 
 When I held her in my arms
 
 For the very last time
 
 The shirt that I vowed I'd never wear again.
 
 
 
 As I took it from the rack
 
 All my dreams came racin' back
 
 The faint perfume of sweet love filled the night
 
 I could see her face again
 
 She kissed my lips as then
 
 And I almost felt my arms around her tight.
 
 
 
 A shirt that even the Gods must envy
 
 For its arms once encircled
 
 The dream that only heavens could bring.
 
 
 
 Against this shirt once beat
 
 The most wonderful heart in the whole wide world
 
 And forever each thread shall remind me of her
 
 I rolled down, I turned up sleeve and scaresly could believe
 
 For I found a strand of her soft golden hair
 
 I slowly took it down like a star from an angel's crown
 
 I closed my eyes and softly said a prayer.
 
 
 
 Then I walked to the window sill
 
 My eyes began to fill
 
 I thought I heard the soft wind call her name
 
 And the shirt across my arm
 
 Grew strangely soft and warm
 
 As if I'd reached and held it to a flame.
 
 
 
 And there I stood hearin' only the beat
 
 Of my own aching heart
 
 Lost in the dreams of what might have been
 
 And the shirt seemed as sorrowful as I
 
 And just as empty body and soul...
 
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| Album Lyrics: Love Is a Sometimes Thing [Decca] [1970] |  
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  Bill Anderson
 "Love Is a Sometimes Thing [Decca] [1970]"
 
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