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love, betrayal, and heartache. This is a rough draft. I haven't mixed at the studio and my voice is a little rough from summer camps (coaching).
wes hayes music
singer/songwriter. Country/Gospel songs about life!
Wes Hayes singer/songwriter/musician. Hello to all, I am a 38 year old school teacher and basketball coach here in the great state of Oklahoma. I am a lifelong sports fanatic having played high school football and basketball. The latter was my meal ticket having gone on to play @ Bacone Junior College and Northeastern State University. After graduation I went into coaching. I come from a family of educators/athletes who inspired me to become a coach/teacher. I have always LOVED music, whether it be singing or playing music. I'm certain my love of music comes from my family and two very different genres/roots. My father is a native of san francisco and my mother from the small town of Mclain, Oklahoma. I tell people that sometimes I would go visit my father and have "the best of earth, wind, and fire", and go back home to my mother, grand-parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and the hee-haw show!I love all types of music and always felt that I could be in this "business". I think if you love it then it's not a business. I have played drums since the age of 10 and picked up a guitar at 29 at the encouragement of my bluegrass buddy superstar Steve Baldridge of Goldwing Express! Also at his encouragement I began writing. I knew I could but just never put it on paper. Well I did, and of course I'm biased but I think I do pretty well with it. After 38 years of hard living- some on my own,(but most was just the hand I was dealt), I feel I have written some songs that hit home with people. That is what I try to do, but feeling these songs and living them make them happen. I feel that a good song will hit home with many people, but a great song will touch all the people! If you like original songs then your in the right place. No cover songs, just songs about life, love, god, and a few sinnin' songs! All songs written/sung/played by yours truly. Songs were produced at Drapp Studio's with Louis Drapp and Jason Hargrove. Louis also played guitar and bass while Jason sang harmony and produced. Much thanks and appreciation for these two tremendously talented guys!
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#3,754 today Peak #46
#206 in subgenre Peak #5
Author
Wes Hayes
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Poor man copyright
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August 02, 2010
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MP3 3.9 MB 128 kbps 4:17
Story behind the song
This song is about my Uncle, Dean Bias. He was newly married and had life by the horns in 1968 in Coffeyville, Kansas. Unfortunately he learned that his wife was having an affair and this lead him down a destructive path of alcoholism and made him a bitter and resentful person. He later found peace in his life and this was the time I got to know him best. He was a great man with a wonderful sense of humor. I often wondered why he was the angry individual I came to know as a young boy and what lead to him becoming that way. My mother told me later after his death all of the events that transpired. I felt lead to put his story in words and tried to arrange the melody in the late 60's early 70's song style. I hope you all like it.
Lyrics
I'm thinking of a melody, somewhere in my mind a certain sound a sweet perfume brings it back to life the memories of a haunting love, linger like a haze there keeping time with steel guitars that played on our first date I left my heart in kansas, in 1968 she took my time my money, and i took a cold interstate the songs that fill my heart with pain, somehow wake me up each day, so i can spend eternity in 1968 2nd verse I finally found that melody, tucked back in my mind i hear the lonesome chello cry to words of caroline I'll soon be losted in sorrows waves returning to it's sea that's where i'll find those steal guitars, playing just for me I left my heart in Kansas, in 1968 she took my time, my money and i took a cold interstate I asked the sun to stay away, but somehow he wakes me up each day, so i can spend eternity in 1968 I asked Jim Beam to stay away but somehow he wakes me up each day, so we can spend eternity in 1968, so I can spend eternity 1968
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