The Other Side of Somewhere
Bob Nolan
Renewed copyright: September 24, 1985
I hear your voice from the other side of somewhere
Come drifting down through the years we’ve been apart.
Then once again, from the other side of somewhere,
You come for me and I’m waiting here, sweetheart,
To go with you to the other side of somewhere.
I never knew that the other side of somewhere
Was just a moment beyond a moment past.
You touch my hand from the other side of somewhere
And in that moment the journey’s through, at last,
And I’m with you on the other side of somewhere.
ABOUT THIS SONG
The title of this song is a phrase from Bob Nolan's 1936 song, "Travel'in' with the Sun". In 1948, Bob and his wife took a long-awaited trip to Hawaii. Bob was so affected by the whole experience that he wrote several "island" songs, love songs.
After his sudden death in 1980, Bob's wife and daughter found lead sheets to "The Other Side of Somewhere" dated 1950 in his effects. On September 24, 1985, his daughter renewed the copyright. Bob worked tremendously hard on his post-Sons of the Pioneers compositions but had to set them aside for "another time" because they didn't catch. Some he let Marty Robbins or Snuff Garrett look through but most of his songs he piled up in his workroom, forgotten and now lost.
There was no recording so we gave Dave Bourne the lead sheets and he kindly recorded the song for us.