HONEY
words and music by Bobby Russell
-Artist: Bobby Goldsboro
-the # 16 song of the 1960-1969 rock era
-was # 1 for 5 weeks in 1968
-Words and Music by Bobby Russell (who also wrote "Little Green Apples" and 
-"The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia")


See the tree, how big it's grown
  but friend, it hasn't been too long, it wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad,
  the first day that she planted it was just a twig
Then the first snow came and she
  ran out to brush the snow away so it wouldn't die
Came runnin' in all excited
  slipped and almost hurt herself, I laughed till I cried

   And honey, I miss you and I'm being good
   And I'd love to be with you, if only I could

She wrecked the car and she was sad
  and so afraid that I'd be mad, but what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
  guess you could say she saw through me and hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly
  and found her crying needlessly in the middle of the day
And it was in the early Spring
  when flowers bloom and robins sing, she went away

   And honey, I miss you and I'm being good
   And I'd love to be with you, if only I could

She was always young at heart
  kinda dumb and kinda smart, I loved her so
I surprised her with a puppy
  kept me up all Christmas Eve, two years ago
It would sure embarass her
  when I came home from working late 'cause I would know
That she'd been sittin' there and cryin'
  over some sad and silly late, late show

   And honey, I miss you and I'm being good
   And I'd love to be with you, if only I could

Yes, one day while I wasn't home
  while she was there and all alone, the angels came
Now all I have is memories
  of honey, and I wake up nights and call her name
Now my life's an empty stage
  where honey lived and honey played and love grew up
A small cloud passes overhead
  and cries down in the flower bed that honey loved

(fading to end)
And see the tree, how big it's grown
  but friend, it hasn't been too long, it wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad,
  the first day that she planted it was just a twig

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