About Us

Welcome to Lonesome Water  Books. We currently have a couple thousand volumes on our website. More will be added as time permits. We also have a bricks and mortar bookstore in Sisters, Oregon.  If your traveling through please stop by.

Thanks. --- Tom Hughes, Proprieter 

 

drank lonesome water
I was a child then
Up in the willow brake
Huntin' for a sign
Came on a place where
The rocks was made hollow
And the water beneath me
Rippled and rhymed

I drank lonesome water
Knowed in a minute
Shoulda done better, Lord,
Shoulda been more wise
But I knelt down and drank of it
Slowly and freely
'Neath the overhanging cliffs
With ferns in my eyes

Now it wasn't tame water
Knowed in a minute
Musta been lyin' there
Since Winter went home
Lyin' in the place where
The rocks was made hollow
Lyin' in the shadow
Of the cool marble stone

-- Roy Helton