Wish You Knew (performed by Dwight Newman)

 

I originally wrote the tune for this back in 1984. It was one of the first tunes I wrote. My brother

Dwight added the original words to it- I think they were mostly all his, sometime around then- I think

maybe 1986, and added the bridge instrumental part, and then it's kind of sat on the shelf, until

recently we changed the lyrics around a bit more to come up with how it presently is. It's still mostly

his lyrics - I had a hand in writing the third verse. Dwight recorded it at my home here in LA while

on a visit from his home in Kansas City. I'll include a take of it on my lastest album "The Sandhill

Waltz", which will be out shortly.

 

I heard your name in conversation

Seemed fine as usual and busy too

Been quite awhile since I remembered

Wish you knew how much I still love you

 

I climbed a tree up on the river bluff

Took me half the day just to find it

It’s got the prettiest view

And a seat for two

Wish you knew how much I still love you

 

It’s true you can loose your love in a thousand ways

But you can’t keep your heart in some dusty box forever

I’ll be blamed if it’ll make me blue

But I just wish you knew how much I still love you

 

Interlude

 

Sometimes I almost hear us laughin’

But I don’t let it make me blue

It almost seems a shame we’re happy

Wish you knew how much I still love you

 

Chorus

 

by Doug and Dwight Newman

© 1984, 2006 Sandthistle Music / ASCAP