Lyrics Monday.

Every Monday, from now on, I'm going to try to post lyrics to songs I like, these two are two of my favorites.

SILVER MEDALS & SWEET MEMORIES
written by Don Reid
sung by the Statler Brothers
from the Best of Rides Again, Volume 2 (1979)

Just a picture on a table, just some letters Mama saved
and a costume brooch from England that has on the back it has engraved
"To Eileen, I love you, London, 1943"
But she never heard from him again, and he never heard of me.

CHORUS:
And the war still ain't over for Mama
Every night in her dreams she still sees
The young face of someone who left her
Silver medals & sweet memories

In Mama's bedroom closet, to this day on her top shelf
There's a flag folded 3-cornered, layin' all by itself
The sergeant would surely be honored to know how pretty she still is
and after all these lonely years, his Eileen, still his.

CHORUS:
And the war still ain't over for Mama
Every night in her dreams she still sees
The young face of someone who left her
Silver medals & sweet memories

THIS IS WHERE THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY
written by Sonny Throckmorton / Casey Kelly
As Performed by George Strait

I knew the stakes were high right from the start.
When she dealt the cards, I dealt my heart.
Now I just found a game that I can't play,
And this is where the cowboy rides away.

And my heart is sinking like the setting sun,
Setting on the things I wish I'd done.
It's time to say goodbye to yesterday.
This is where the cowboy rides away.

We've been in and out of love and in-between.
And now we play the final showdown scene.
As the credits roll a sad song starts to play,
And this is where the cowboy rides away.

And my heart is sinking like a setting sun,
Setting on the things I wish I'd done.
Oh the last goodbye's the hardest one to say,
And this is where the cowboy rides away.
Oh the last goodbye's the hardest one to say.
This is where the cowboy rides away.