From the recording The Music Of Life
TRACK 8: DREAMS OF YESTERDAY - 4:02
ISRC: TCAHA2334620
Bobby Giles BJG Publishing / BMI
Steve Loggie: Banjo
Jim VanCleve: Fiddle, Mandolin, and Background Vocals
Lenny Nichols: Acoustic Bass
Carl Josefy: Mandolin, Background Vocals
Rob Ickes: Resophonic Guitar
Bobby Giles: Guitar and Lead Vocals
— My good friend Tommy Reese and I sat down to write a song; we went off on our own for a spell and upon presenting our ideas, we decided to keep them…this is a story about unrequited love.
Lyrics
Trav’lin’ down a dreamer’s road where love was not to be
I turned ‘round, where I could see Sweet Mary followin’ me
She was a beauty fair and kind with eyes of emerald green
There in the dreams of a young man’s heart the brightest I’d ever seen
Mary Sweet Mary please marry me, those words I’ll never say
But I’ll be thankful anyways for dreams of yesterday
When I awoke I realized all was just a dream
That love, those eyes, to my surprise nothin‘ but fantasy
Life may last a thousand years, dreams for just a day
Mary may not be her name but love will still remain
Youthful dreams can be it seems oh so real at times
If not for castles in the air love would never be so inclined