Just Give It Away
This song really speaks to me and I don’t know why. The guy is completely at the end of the rope. The tune sticks with me all day. It doesn’t hurt that it was done by a genuinely nice guy, Bill Anderson. He doesn’t have the greatest voice but has been quite successful. Another country singer that seems like a genuinely nice guy, is Charlie Pride. Everything I’ve ever seen of him is top notch.
“She was stormin’ through the house that day
I could tell she was leavin’
And I thought aw, she’ll be back
Till she turned around and pointed at the wall and said…
That picture from our honeymoon, that night in Frisco Bay…
Just give it away, give it away.”
“There ain’t nothing in this house worth fightin’ over, And we’re both tired of fightin’ anyway
Just give it away”
“When the front door swung wide open
She flung her diamond ring
Just give it away”
I said ‘honey, don’t you want your half of everything?
Just give it away”
“So I’m still right here where she left me
Along with all the other things she doesn’t care about anymore
That picture of our honeymoon that night in Frisco Bay, And I can’t give it away.”
I’ll let the reader decide what might have happened. Seems like you reach a breaking point. When we were newly married, 5 married couples in our church broke up. We prayed fervently, but none of them got back together. Except for one man, that married someone else, and went back to his original wife 15 years later. This was a Mennonite Church and years before divorce was not tolerated under any circumstances.
But there was one couple I know of that got back together. Alan Jackson married his high school sweetheart, and they had three girls. He left her for a period of time, and she joined a Bible study group and the group prayed. They have been back together for many years and the girls have grown up and married. He now has some type of degenerative nerve disease and cannot perform, and I am sure he and his wife are a comfort for each other. Just give it away.
—James Neuhouser
