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No Time To Say Goodbye

Words and Music by Tom Paxton

It was a phone call in the night, the kind you hear before it rings.
It was a phone call in the night where you can feel an angel´s wings,
Where you know before you answer, that it´s been someone´s time to die.
And then I learned that it was you, and as I stood there I could feel you passing by,
There was no time to say goodbye.

There was no time to say goodbye, no time to thank you for the years.
There was no time to say goodbye, a lamp goes out, light disappears.
And as I stood there in the darkness, there were more tears than I could cry,
For you were here so totally, it seemed impossible that you could ever die,
There was no time to say goodbye.

There are pictures in a box, in a room, in a house long miles from here,
There are old seashells and rocks, faded labels from our days of German beer.
There are postcards from Montana, faded drawings and some drums,
And I can´t recall the rest, oh God, we´re never really ready when it comes.

There was no time to say goodbye, I was delayed in getting home.
There was a missed connecting flight, and when I got here, you were gone.
Someone handed me some coffee, a tiny sandwich made of rye.
I put ´em down, I stood there, looking at your picture on the mantel, wondering why
There was no time to say goodbye.

There are pictures in a box, in a room, in a house long miles from here,
There are old seashells and rocks, faded labels from our days of German beer.
There are postcards from Montana, faded drawings and some drums,
And I can´t recall the rest, oh God, we´re never really ready when it comes.

There was no time to say goodbye, no time to thank you for the years,
There was no time to say goodbye, a lamp goes out, light disappears.
And as I stood there in the darkness, there were more tears than I could cry,
For you were here so totally, it seemed impossible that you could ever die,
There was no time to say goodbye, there was no time to say goodbye,
There was no time to say goodbye.

Thanks to Jan for the transcription!


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