Diggin' Up Bones - Randy Travis (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Diggin' Up Bones (Randy Travis, 1986). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-07-11. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Diggin' Up Bones," written by Paul Overstreet, Nat Stuckey and Al Gore, was Randy Travis' 4th release and second no. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Singles chart rising to the top position in 1986, no. 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks, and was certified Gold as a digital download for 500,000 downloads in 2021 (songfacts, 2022; Whitburn, 1994). Nat Stuckey received co-credit because "Diggin' Up Bones" used the melody from Stuckey's song "Sun Comin' Up" (youtube, 2009).

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Lyrics:

Last night I dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer.
I set it on the table and I talked to it till four.
I read some old love letters right up to the break of dawn.
Yeah, I've been sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.

Then I went through the jewelry and I found our wedding rings.
I put mine on my finger and I gave yours a fling
Across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home.
Yeah, tonight I'm sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.

I'm diggin' up bones, I'm diggin' up bones,
Exhuming things that's better left alone.
And I'm resurrecting mem'ries of a love that's dead and gone.
Yeah, tonight I'm sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.

And I went through the closet and I found some things in there,
Like that pretty lingerie that I bought you to wear.
And I recalled how good you looked each time you had it on.
Yeah, tonight I'm sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.

I'm diggin' up bones, I'm diggin' up bones,
Exhuming things that's better left alone.
And I'm resurrecting mem'ries of a love that's dead and gone.
Yeah, tonight I'm sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.