Lingering Memories Lyrics - Mel Tillis

If mem'ries were gathered like flowers each day I would pick a bouquet 

To last through these long lonely hours but mem'ries aren't gathered that way 

For mem'ries don't grow like the roses when kissed by the sunshine and dew 

And mem'ries aren't carefully chosen they've bloomed from the love that once grew 

There's mem'ries as sweet as the roses and sad as the violets of blue 

But the lingering lingering mem'ries are the mem'ries that I have of you 

[ fiddle - steel ] 

That mem'ries would wither like flowers fall to the earth and decay 

Each day I would pray for the showers to wash all my mem'ries away 

There's mem'ries as sweet... 

But the lingering lingering mem'ries are the mem'ries that I have of you