I Just Came Home to Count the Memories Song Lyrics and Chords
I Just Came Home to Count the Memories Song Lyrics and Chords by Cal Smith
I Just Came Home To Count The Memories
Recorded by Cal Smith
Written by
Glenn Ray
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I saw roses choking in the grass
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Flaking paint and a broken window
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A mailbox barely standing by the
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driveway
I can almost see the
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name
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swing set and forgotten toys where
Little girls and boys played happy
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games
Everything I ever cared about is
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But the memory still
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remains
The old man from the house across the street asked
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How's it going and I said
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fine
The expression on his face would make me
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think
He could almost read my
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mind
That
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Johnson boy from down the road was asking
If the kids could come and
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play
Lord I wish I could have told him
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yes but I
Just said I guess son not
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today
I just came home to
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count the
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memories
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That I've been counting in my
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mind
I just came home to count the
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memories
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From a better day and
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time
Birds that sang their pretty songs
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Aren't singing like they did when we were
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here
Cause there's no happiness in music if
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somebody
Isn't close enough to
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care
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picked a ragged daisy from it's home
Out in the corner of the
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yard
She loves me she loves me not
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now I don't
Have to wonder any
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more
Repeat # 5
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I guess it's time to say
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goodbye
FAQ
Who sang the the song I Just Came Home to Count the Memories?
- The song I Just Came Home to Count the Memories was sang by Cal Smith.
Who is Cal Smith?
- Calvin Grant Shofner (April 7, 1932 - October 10, 2013), known professionally as Cal Smith, was an American country musician, most famous for his 1974 hits "Country Bumpkin" and "It's Time to Pay the Fiddler".
