When I go, I'll miss you
Means you mean a lot to me
It also means I'm leaving
Just the same

Appreciation
For your life's calling
As the engines hum 
I know it's time to make a change

'Cause you know when you don't
When you don't listen
When you don't
You know when you don't listen
To that little voice inside
All you make is Fool's Gold

We've all gotta do
What we gotta do
Look into your eyes
I see them true blues

Love for your family
And keep the fellas laughin'
But me 
I hear a calling too

You know when you don't
When you don't listen
When you don't
When you don't listen
To that little voice inside
All you make is Fool's Gold

As Aurora Borealis dances South
Here I sit, hear the engines

I know the changes break in everyone
That doesn't warrant sittin' on my hands

Everything I could regret
I can say thanks to now
For the lessons wrapped
In the tangles of love

Everything I bet on now
Has a root deep in my blood
Even when
It shakes me to the bone

'Cause you know when you don't
When you don't listen
When you don't
You know when you don't listen
To that little voice inside
All you make is Fool's Gold

Fool’s Gold (When You Don’t)

When Sam Phillips sold Elvis’ contract in 1955 he used the money to start an all girl radio station in Memphis, TN. Set in a pink, plush studio in the nations’ third Holiday Inn, it was a novelty—but not for long. He hired models, beauty queens, actresses, telephone operators. Some were young mothers who just needed a job. WHER was the first radio station to feature women as more than novelties and sidekicks. The WHER girls were broadcasting pioneers. From 1955 into the mid-1970s they ruled the airwaves with style, wit and imagination. “WHER was the embryo of the egg,” said Sam Phillips. “We broke a barrier. There was nothing like it in the world.”

WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts, Part 1

Showcasing improvisational works and working song drafts across the spectrum

Fool’s Gold (When You Don’t)

Brett G. Nelson

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