From the recordings As Eden Lay In Darkness and Hard To Find
As typical a country song as Bob and I can write.
Vocal: Tom Fairnie
Harmony vocal: Jane Fairnie, Karen Dietz
Guitar: Tom Fairnie
2nd Guitar: Bernard Brogue
Percussion: Robin Brill
Bass: Ken Kennedy
Slide Guitar & Dobro: Bruce Hogg
Lyrics
The Blue Part Of My Heart
Where the rain is always pouring down
And the lightning scorches the ground
And every falling star is ocean bound
In the blue part of my heart
I call you
And the shadows remember where you stood
Just like you said that they would
Leaving me an indigo mood
In the blue part of my heart
I call you
You said you’d always stay in my heart
‘til death or temptation do us part
You said that you’d always be true
I believed you
And here you are
In the blue part of my heart
I call you
There’s a line in an old Waylon tune
‘bout Tuscaloosa and a midnight saloon
And a lonesome hearted, broken moon
In the blue part of my heart
I call you
You said you’d always stay in my heart...
You said you’d always stay in my heart...
© The Blue Part Of My Heart music by Tom Fairnie, words by Tom Fairnie & Bob Shields July 2007
And it was either lie or understand
How this one is not chosen.
Clearly there was a mistress plan
Not based upon devotion
And an image viewed from stormy sand
Perhaps was pain in motion,
Or only a painted drowning man
Upon a painted ocean.
Painted Ocean © Bob Shields