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Faded Love
American Fiddle tune and Song, Composed by Jim Rob and John Wills; Arranged, performed and copyrighted by Bob Wills, 1950.
ARTIST: Composed by Jim Rob and John Wills; Performed and copyrighted by Bob Wills, 1950.
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes; DATE: 1950
RECORDING INFO: Faded Love - Wills, Bob
1. Clemens, Alice. Fiddlin' Fever, UCA, LP (197?), cut# 14
2. Clements, Vassar. Crossing the Catskills, Rounder 0016, LP (1972), cut#A.05
3. Harman, Bob; and the Blue Ridge Descendants. Music of the Blue Ridge, Galaxie, LP (198?), cut#B.03
4. Harper, Roy. It's a Long Way Back, Old Homestead OHS 80094, Cas (1989), cut#B.03
5. O'Connor, Mark. Pickin' in the Wind, Rounder 0068, LP (1976), cut# 13
6. Pettyjohn, Bunk. In an Arizona Town, AFF AFF 33-3, LP (1976?), cut# 8 (Texas Bells)
7. Rice, Tony. Guitar, King Bluegrass KB-529, LP (197?), cut# 2
8. Sparks, Larry; and the Lonesome Ramblers. Footsteps of Tradition, King Bluegrass KB 527, LP (1974?), cut#A.02
9. Wills, Bob. Bob Wills Keepsake Album #1, Longhorn LP-001, LP (1964), cut# 5
10. Wills, Bob; and the Texas Playboys. Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 2. Best of the Tiffanys., Edsel ED 322, LP (1984/1990), cut#A.02
OTHER NAMES: Soldier's March
SOURCES: Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 239-240. Flying Fish 334, The Red Clay Ramblers- "It Ain't Right" (1986). Cockerham, Fred. Old Time Herald, Old Time Herald OTH, Ser (1987-), 1/2, p21; Jarrell, Tommy. Old Time Herald, Old Time Herald OTH, Ser (1987-), 4/3, p40; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;
NOTES: Key D; Modulates to Key of A for vocal parts. One of the all-time great country fiddle melodies which Jim Rob (mandolin/fiddle) and John Wills (Bob's father) wrote, was the blues-type fiddle tune "Faded Love." Ruby, Bob's sister, loved for her father to play it: "It was slow and I could rest my figers for awile."
Wills arranged his father's tune and lyrics wre added. The song was copyrighted by Bob Wills in 1950.
Faded Love-Bob Wills
(Fiddle Solo in key D)
Verse: As I look at the letters
That you wrote to me,
It's you that I'm thinking of,
As I read the lines
That to me were so sweet,
I remember our faded love.
Chorus: I miss you, darling,
More and more, every day,
As heaven would miss the stars above,
With every heartbeat
I still think of you,
And remember our faded love.
Verse: I think of the past
And all the pleasures
As I watch the mating of the dove,
It was in the springtime
That you said good-bye,
I remember our faded love.
Chorus: I miss you, darling,
More and more, every day,
As heaven would miss the stars above,
With every heartbeat
I still think of you,
And remember our faded love,
And remember our faded love.
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