A Showman's Life
     Jesse Winchester, "A Touch on the Rainy Side", 1978
     --words and music by Jesse Winchester

from "The Farrago Sessions", 2006, LineLevel Music


A showman's life is a smoky bar,
And the fevered chase of a tiny star,
It's a hotel room and a lonely wife
From what I've seen of a showman's life

Nobody told me about this part
They told me all about the pretty girls and the wine
And the money and the good times
No mention of all the wear and tear on an old honkey-tonker's heart
And I might have known it
But nobody told me about this part

A boy will dream as children do
Of a great white way, 'til the dream comes true
But a phony smile in a colored light
Is all it is to a showman's life

Nobody told me about this part
They told me all about the pretty girls and the wine
And the money and the good times
No mention of all the wear and tear on an old honkey-tonker's heart
And I might have known it
But nobody told me about this part

Nobody told me about this part
They told me all about the pretty girls and the wine
And the money and the good times
No mention of all the wear and tear on an old honkey-tonker's heart
And I might have known it
But nobody told me about this part

I might have known it
But nobody told me about this part






A SHOWMAN'S LIFE
(JESSE WINCHESTER)

     THIS IS A GREAT TUNE FROM JESSE'S WINCHESTER'S
1978 A TOUCH ON THE RAINY SIDE ALBUM AND IT
WAS AN HONOR TO HAVE MY FRIEND AND NORTH
COAST LEGEND ALEX BEVAN ON BOARD TO SING
SOME HARMONY. I KIND OF THOUGHT THE LYRIC
MIGHT HIT HIM LIKE IT HIT ME. YOU CAN FIND WHAT
IS PROBABLY THE SONG'S DEFINITIVE VERSION ON
BUDDY MILLER'S MIDNIGHT AND LONESOME ALBUM









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