Wayside / Back in Time, originally by Gillian Welch

Standing on the corner with a nickel or a dime

There used to be a rail car to take you down the line

Too much beer and whiskey to ever be employed

And when I got to Nashville, it was too much soldier's joy

Wasted on the wayside, wasted on the way

If I don't go tomorrow, you know I'm gone today.

Back, baby, back in time

I wanna go back when you were mine

Back, baby, back in time

I wanna go back when you were mine.

Black highway all-night ride

Watching the times fall away to the side

Clear channel way down low

Is coming in loud and my mind let go.

Peaches in the summertime, apples in the fall

If I can't have you all the time, I won't have none at all

Oh, I wish I was in 'Frisco in a brand-new pair of shoes

I'm sitting here in Nashville with Norman's Nashville blues

So come all you good time rounders listening to my sound

Then drink a round to Nashville before they tear it down.

Back, baby, back in time

I wanna go back when you were mine

Back, baby, back in time

I wanna go back when you were mine.

Hard weather, driving slow

The buggies and the hats in town for the show

Oh darling, the songs they played

Are all I got left of the love we made.

      It is a folk-country song written by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, released on Welch’s 2003 album Soul Journey. The lyrics mention drifting through life, arriving in Nashville, and encountering "soldier's joy" (a traditional old-time fiddle tune and a historical term for morphine/whiskey). The song also lacks a strict linear narrative, instead evoking strong feelings of nostalgia, longing, and bittersweet memory.