Saturday, April 25, 2009

Montgomery Gentry - Gone

Nothing lasts forever, including vacations. Not only is vacation over, but we have the long drive home. Fortunately, country music has plenty of songs about changes, and some of them are great driving music.

Montgomery Gentry have been a major recording duo since their platinum album "Tattoos and Scars" in 1999. Their mix of country and hard driving rock have given them two more platinum albums and two gold ones.

It's been said of country music that the songs have either happened to you, or happened to someone you know. "Gone" captures change in a way that a lot of folks can relate to. Troy Gentry said that he knew this song was going to be a hit because the first time they performed it, the audience started singing along.


Gone (Songwriters: Bob DiPiero, Jeffrey Steele)
This ain't no temporary, typical, tearful good-bye, uh uh uh
This ain't no breakin' up and wakin' up and makin' up one more time, uh uh uh
This is gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone

Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang
Gone like a '59 Cadillac
Like all the good things that ain't never coming back
She's gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone, she's gone

This ain't no give it time, I'm hurtin' but maybe we can work it out, uh uh uh
Won't be no champagne, red rose, romance, second chance, uh uh uh
This is gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone

Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang
Gone like a '59 Cadillac
Like all the good things that ain't never coming back
She's gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone
She's gone

She's gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone, she's gone

Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang
Gone like a '59 Cadillac
Like all the good things that ain't never coming back
She's gone (gone) she's gone (gone) she's gone (gone) she's gone
She's gone

Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war,bang bang
Gone like a '59 Cadillac
Like all the good things
Well, she's gone

Long gone, done me wrong
Never comin' back, my baby's gone , shes gone
Lonely at home, sittin' all alone
She's packed her bags and now she's gone
Never comin' back, she's gone
No no never, no no never, no never comin' back
Montgomery Gentry trivia: Eddie Montgomery is brother of country singer John Michael Montgomery.

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