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It's Over
Words & Music by Jimmie RodgersRecorded by Jimmie Rodgers, 1966*
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If time were not a moving thing and I could make it stay
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This hour of love we share would always be
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There'd be no coming day to shine a morning light
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And make us realize our night is o - ver.
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When you walk away from me, there is no place to put my hand
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Except to shade my eyes against the sun that rises o'er the land
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I watch you walk away -- somehow I have to let you go
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Now it's o - ver.
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If you knew just how I really feel, you might return and yet
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There are so many times that people have to love and then forget;
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Oh, there might have been a way;
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Somehow I have to force myself to say, "It's o - ver."
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So I turn my back, turn my collar to the wind,
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Move along in silence trying not to think at all;
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I set my feet before me, walk the silent street before me,
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Now it's o - ver.
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If time were not a moving thing and I could make it stay
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This hour of love we share would always be
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There'd be no coming day to shine a morning light
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And make us realize our night is o - ver.
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It's o - ver.
Although Elvis Presley would record the song in 1973 -- and in all honesty, it's probably his version that is better remembered now -- I don't believe either he (or Eddy Arnold, who recorded it two years after Rodgers) ever captured the feel of the song as well as the original.