Reading a book on this basically unknown 50’s artist, and tracking cover artists on YouTube.


In between two tall mountains
There's a place they call Lonesome
Don't see why they call it Lonesome
I'm never lonesome when I go there
See that bird sitting on my window sill
Well he's singing whippoorwill all the night through
See that brook running by my kitchen door
Well it couldn't talk no more if it was you
Up that tree there's sort of a squirrel thing
Sounds just like we did when we were quarreling
In the yard I keep a pig or two
They drop in for dinner like you used to do
I don't stand in the need of company
With everything I see talking like you
Up that tree there's sort of a squirrel thing
Sounds just like we did when we were quarreling
You may think you left me all alone
But I can hear you talk without a telephone
I don't stand in the need of company
With everything I see talking like you
See that bird sitting on my window sill
Well he's singing whippoorwill all the night through
Just whippoorwill, all the night through
In between two tall mountains
There's a place they call Lonesome
Don't see why they call it Lonesome
I'm never lonesome, now I live there




Honeybee
Go and tell a starling
To go and tell my darling
To hurry home to me
Honeybee
Say I'm sad and lonely
And say I'm wishing only
His loving smile to see
We had a fight and he's been gone
An hour by the clock upon the shelf
He was right but I'm too proud
To go and tell him so myself
So honeybee
Go and tell a starling
To go and tell my darling
To hurry home to me





This letter comes from fortune's child
You see no other name is signed
You may recall my heart was wild
And to your love I only smiled.
We never could go hand in hand
So to your love I only smiled
And you would never understand
That I was fortune's only child
You used to ask me what I wanted
I said the world, and time, and space
My heart was wild
My head was haunted
With every new and smiling face.
I said I'd wait til fortune smiled
I said I'd never change my mind
This letter comes from fortune's child
But when was fortune ever kind?


Last edited by Bill Draper; 10/16/26 10:16 PM.