Before I Met You
As I was writing the Carl Smith blog the other day,
I listened to some of the old songs I loved all the way,
One of the songs touched my heart deep down inside,
This poem describes why this song gave me a ride.
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Before I Met You
When I listened to that song, l heard that honky tonk sound,
That I loved from the days we two stepped the town.
It sounded so good making me want an ice cold beer,
So I had Alexa play that song again I wanted to hear.
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This time I listened closely to the words as he sang,
And I remembered them from the old days as they rang.
Telling my own story of when I was a wild single man.
Giving me chills and goose bumps that up my back ran.
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I played that song over and over many times right then,
As it was indeed about me before I did meet my Pam.
A song about me with music I loved floated me high,
Right up there in the sky on a super natural high.
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I wrote a blog about Pam saving me from the wild life,
Back when I was single living a life with much strife.
If you want to take a peek I’ll add a link just below,
So you too can read and how Pam saved me, I know.
Link to “Single Man Blues” above
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I’m putting the words to the song just below to view,
So you can see the kind of life I was suffering too,
Before I met Pam and she pulled me right on through.
Who became my soulmate as through life we flew.
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Lyrics to “Before I Met You” are below
“Before I Met You”
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“I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time,
But that was before I met you.
I never saw one that I wanted for mine,
But that was before I met you.
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I thought I was swinging the world by the tail,
I thought I could never be blue.
I thought I’d been kissed and I thought I’d been loved,
But that was before I met you.
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I wanted to ramble and always be free,
But that was before I met you.
I said that no woman could ever hold me,
But that was before I met you.
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I thought I was swinging the world by the tail,
I thought I could never be blue.
I thought I’d been kissed and I thought I’d been loved,
But that was before I met you.
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They tell me I must reap just what I have sown,
But darling I hope it’s not true.
For once I made plans about living alone,
But that was before I met you.
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I thought I was swinging the world by the tail,
I thought I could never be blue.
I thought I’d been kissed and I thought I’d been loved,
But that was before I met you.”
It may not flip your switch, but it does wonderful things for me.
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I tried to find out who wrote the song a while ago,
But it seems to have been a folk song so very old,
Passed on down by other singers over the long years.
So a good woman saved the men of old with no tears.
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Song writers must have had lives similar to ours back then,
As they often tell song stories that we lived like them.
I heard a song that described Pam exactly to me,
I wrote a blog about that one too for the world to see.
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Link to “Close Enough To Perfect”
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Charley Pride, Dolly Pardon,and Flatt & Scruggs too,
Recorded that song sometime later as they all grew,
So it has that sound and words that many relate to.
Porter Wagner and Skeeter Davis also sang the song so true.
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There are likely some songs that you have heard.
That remind you of your life when you hear the words.
So listen carefully to the words on those new songs,
And you may find a song that does turn you on strong.
by Bill
Thanks for reading Before I Met You,
Bill