Each Minute Seems a Million Years

Hank Locklin · Wabash Cannonball [1968]

(Alton Watson)



I have no record now I pine for

You are all that's on my mind

I think of you both night and day

Each hour each minute you're away.



Twas the days or years since you've left

Oh, how many hours now have passed

I know I've shed ten thousand trears

Each minute seems a million years.



--- Instrumental ---



Each night I go bed and then I pray

That you'll come back again

When sleep won't come to drown my tears

Each minute seems a million years.



Till I'm back within your arms again

And until I find the nights do end

I pine my way for you my dear

Each minute seems a million years...