1. |
Winter Window
03:46
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Please don't look for me
Through your winter window
It won't be my face you see
When December winds blow
I've got to keep moving on
Won't let the grass grow
I've never stayed around too long
Just a face in a fading photo
It won't be my voice you hear
In your sleeping hedgerow
Just a note in the call
Of the lonely laughing black crow
I asked you when this all began
With summer's first swallow
Did you really need a man
Who just lives for tomorrow
My steps are quiet memories
On your frosted meadow
Made by a ghost set free
That never casts a shadow
Please don't sit & cry
This love has caused you sorrow
All that's in this world must die
Like melted summer snow
In the spring's warming light
A quiet whispered "hello"
Like a fingers dancing flight
On the strings of a cello
Before the winter comes again
And the leaves leave the willow
You won't remember me
Forgotten song on the radio
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2. |
Green Summer Dress
02:58
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There's blue sky above me and soft southern rain
Storm clouds are clearing I'm smiling again
What is the reason for this new happiness
I've married the girl in the green summer dress
White sheets of morning and a step on the stair
I open my eyes and she's standing there
There's no one in this world I need to impress
'Cause I married the girl in the green summer dress
I can see her
Running down the roads of my memory
Blowing through the years
That she gave to me
Wearing that dress
So gracefully
I saw her out walking on the first day of spring
Picked her a flower she didn't say anything
I made up my mind then and I think you can guess
To marry that girl in the green summer dress
There's a glow of promise before the sunrise
There's a lifetime of wisdom in an old man's eyes
If there's meaning to this it's in the caress
Of the girl I married in the green summer dress
I can see her
Running down the roads of my memory
Blowing through the years
That she gave to me
Wearing that dress
So gracefully
Are we here for a purpose, it's too soon to tell
Has it all been for nothing a final farewell
I'll keep just one day; they can take all the rest
The day I married the girl in the green summer dress
The day I married the girl in the green summer dress
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3. |
Shoreline Song
04:39
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The waves on the shore
Have got my mind wandering
To a time we shared
Long before
The sun on your face
And your hand on the violin
Close my eyes and listen
To the rain
Walked out today to the gulls call
Swear I saw you by the sea
Reached out to you in freefall
Woke up drowning in memories
There's a shadow on the water
It's getting too dark for me to see
Only the echo
Of her laughter
Takes me to the place
Where I want to be
On the tide today
Washed up on the sand,
Fading flowers from a wreath
Or a bouquet
Walked out to the south
stood in the salt spray
I could taste your last tears
In my mouth
There's a ship that sails
To places I've never seen
I could board her and ride
On the trades
You know that I
Will never leave here
But my mark will fade away
Bye & bye
Walked out today to the gulls call
Swear I saw you by the sea
Reached out to you in freefall
Woke up drowning in memories
There's a shadow on the water
It's getting too dark for me to see
Only the echo
Of her laughter
Can take me to the place
Where I want to be
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4. |
Eyes Of Ocean Blue
05:24
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I'm leaving here tomorrow I'm freeing you
Please don't try to follow I guess it's true
That being lost
Is worth the cost
Of the love that we knew
The love that we knew
This world is full of strangers I'm close to you
A sea of broken faces and a thought that flew
A thousand miles
Through endless aisles
Of colours flooding through
Colours flooding through
The fading light I don't want to fight lets hold it to the sun
Hold it to the sun
You're the only one
Your cotton dress one soft caress your eyes of ocean blue
Eyes of ocean blue
I still love you
I'm holding on
Still holding on
A voice inside is calling and I want something new
Don't be sad and crying this is long overdue
The empty days
Just tick away
Could you save me a few
Please save a few
I'm sitting in this cafe on a warm summer's day
Watching people talking but I've nothing to say
They cant't see
How it feels to be
Just drifting away
The fading light I don't want to fight lets hold it to the sun
Hold it to the sun
You're the only one
Your cotton dress one soft caress your eyes of ocean blue
Eyes of ocean blue
I still love you
I'm holding on
Still holding on
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5. |
The Road
04:12
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Do you wake to find your life unwind
Same picture every day
There must be more on a far off shore
Why would you want to stay?
But the road is cold, dark and old
So this is what I say
Listen hard 'cause yard by yard
It took my life away
Trucker's stops and coffee pots
A waitress trapped in time
Years of dust and old red rust
Another glass of wine
Gunmetal days, forgotten ways
To lose this soul of mine
Red leather booths and country tunes
I can't get off my mind
Fields of grain and summer rain
To wash away the dirt
But a hundred miles of frozen smiles
Can't take away the hurt
Winding lanes and weather vanes
Faded in the sun
Empty barns, abandoned farms
Where wild horses run
Angry skies and false goodbyes
That leave me with a lie
Leaning poles on dusty roads
As the trucks go rolling by
Old cars in yards, a wind so hard
It will take your breath away
Rotting dreams and headlight beams
That turn the night to day
The cold green eyes and soft warm thighs
Of the girl that I've just paid
To keep me warm and calm the storm
From the mistakes that I've made
Motel rooms, the truth that looms
This is not the way to live
Lessons learned, bridges burned
I can't take more than I give
Soft leatherette, another cigarette
The last one in the pack
I can't restore what I had before
I can never bring it back
Neon bars a Dome of stars
But drink can't kill the ache
Stood outside as worlds collide
And the mist rolls off the lake
A sea of graves, Jesus saves
But he looked the other way
But just the same I called his name
Helped keep the ghosts at bay
So if you see me passing by
A cold light in my eyes
Please toss a coin into my cup
To pay for my sunrise
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6. |
This State Of Tennessee
04:52
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I took a drink in Murfreesbro
Now the drink has taken me
I've been running hard since Tupelo
Drinking Jack and cold coffee
A dark eyed woman out of Knoxville
Stopped and gave me a ride
I should have stayed with her forever
But that part of me has died
I've fallen fast and far since Gatlinburg
The last town that I recall
Now I've got lizards on my ceiling
And long lost dreamers down the hall
The only thing that keeps me going
Down the parkways and the pikes
Is the memory of never knowing
What a good life looks like
The whiskey is seeping through my paper cup
Daylight is creeping and I know my time is up
My mother would be weeping if she could only see
The state that I've come to in this state of Tennessee
When you sing for me baby
Please keep it high and clear
The voice of an angel
To take me from here
From the bright lights of Memphis
Through the pine scented trees
I carried your face with me
All across Tennessee
The whiskey is seeping through my paper cup
Daylight is creeping and I know my time is up
My mother would be weeping if she could only see
The state that I've come to in this state of Tennessee
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7. |
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The good book says three score and ten
Is the span of life for all mortal men
And if you'd asked to see what's to come
From, your birthday, your first day
Would you do the same again?
A dragonfly has days to live his life
As he flashes by on his cobalt cathedral flight
Do you think he dreams of future scenes
In the riverside sunshine
Or does he live just for the light?
The church bells are sadly tolling
And the worn pages are turning
The fields are gently rolling
And the funeral pyres are burning
I can hear people talking
I can see figures walking
And I know the leaves are falling
And the Blackbird is softly calling
So Look around and see all that's gone
Cut down like corn as it shines in the sun
Are you asking why they passed you by
On the shore side, ebb tide
Before the race was run?
The church bells are sadly tolling
And the worn pages are turning
The fields are gently rolling
And the funeral pyres are burning
I can hear people talking
I can see figures walking
I know the leaves are falling
And the Blackbird is softly calling
So lay me down in fields of green
When everything I've ever known loved or seen
Has flown away on silent wings
Like a moonbeam, daydream
Too brief and fine to have ever been
The church bells are sadly tolling
And the worn pages are turning
The fields are gently rolling
And the funeral pyres are burning
I can hear people talking
I can see figures walking
I know the leaves are falling
And the Blackbird is softly calling
And the Blackbird is softly calling
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8. |
Songs Of The Apple Tree
04:08
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When October comes stealing out of the summer
Pour the cider from barrels for you and for me
The laughter that rings through the cold days of winter
Makes the happiest song of the old apple tree
When soft evening light flows over the orchards
Young couples come courting to flirt and to tease
Words under boughs so heavy with promise
Make the softest song of the old apple tree
For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood
Covered the land from sea to sea
There's been bone bare winters and 4,000 summers
Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree
When spring brings the brides into the churchyard
There's blossom for blessings let handfulls fall free
New lives and hopes for the next generation
Make an ancient song of the old apple tree
When night comes marching between the gravestones
And the ghosts of the dead dance on the breeze
The windfall that rots and the waste of forever
Makes the saddest song of the old apple tree
For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood
Covered the land from sea to sea
There's been falcon flown summers and 4,000 winters
Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree
When the Robin comes and sits in the meadow
And I'm an old man taking my ease
The song that he sings and will sing me tomorrow
Makes the sweetest of sounds for the old apple tree
For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood
Covered the land from sea to sea
There's been bone bare winters and 4,000 summers
Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree
For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood
Covered the land from sea to sea
There's been falcon flown summers and 4,000 winters
Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree
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9. |
Lonesome Song
04:09
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Standing stooped at crossroads
Waiting for the trains
Crouched in the underpass
Taking shelter from the rain
Early morning sunshine
Too bright on my face
A week of growth, old overcoat
And a cup of Gods' own grace
A whistle blows, hands are cold
There's another town ahead
Empty streets beneath my feet
And the sweet earth for my bed
But I can hear the trees breathing
In the mist and morning dew
A pretty voice is softly singing
This lonesome song from me to you
Now I didn't choose this life
It kind of chose me
You can right that in your book
The truth might set me free
Lost in a dream last night
I was smiling, I was warm
No aching bones bed os stones
No distant, drowning storm
I came awake feeling old
White winter in the air
Old army pack on my back
And a washed out empty stare
But I can hear the trees breathing
In the mist and morning dew
A pretty voice is softly singing
This lonesome song from me to you
Watching an old man die
Miles from his kin
Nowhere to go, nothing to show
For all his wandering
White picket fence, Mercedes Benz
Roses 'round my door
That other life I could've lived
I can't see it anymore
The six ten that takes me north
Slows down for the grade
Take a breath to blow it out
Only a liar's not afraid
But I can hear the trees breathing
In the mist and morning dew
A pretty voice is softly singing
This lonesome song from me to you
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10. |
A Place At Your Table
03:48
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I'm coming back to you in the morning,
Feeling empty,running dry
Like a wounded bird I've been falling
Free falling from the sky
I've been away from you for a long time,
Seems a lifetime, fading light
Shadows grow long in the evening,
Eyes deceiving, losing sight
So if you hear me coming
Lay a place at your table,
And pour me a drink for old times
And when I see your face
Same face I've been seeing,
Every night and every day down the line
In my mind
There's too many places behind me,
To remind me, fading smiles
Moving on is easier than staying,
No betraying for a while
The world is a cold place
But there's warmth in your memory,
Enough to keep me coming for a while
All I needs a small space
If you still remember me
I will make another mile
There's a part of my mind you've been keeping
From the creeping, endless night
Too many days I've been wasting,
Instead of tasting, the sweet sunlight
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11. |
Simple Country Song
04:10
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It's just a simple country song
To sing when you're lonely
It's old and bittersweet
Like a taste of mountain honey
For the love we have known
In the hours that have flown
And all those times
We were crazy
Our lives were lost in perpetual motion
Cheap box of dreams adrift on the ocean
We came so far without compass or bearing
A breath on the wind without reason or meaning
I can hear harmony and chords that chime
With the promise of a new tomorrow
These parts I tried to rhyme
Some were mine and some were borrowed
Secret words whispered low
Of life passing slow
On a melody I stole
From a Blue Jay
Now a still in the air feel the trees breathing
Mist on the hills is finally clearing
Listen hard in the place I am lying
For this is the song you'll hear me singing
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12. |
Bible Belt
03:45
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White board churches, white bored lives
Faithless children, cheating wives
It's a lesson I've learned well
Another hole in this Bible belt
You see I'm leaving, Tennesssee
Because my faith is leaving me
In the shade of the mountain pines
I'm cutting loose the ties that bind
I searched for truth in all the wrong places
All I found were a few passing traces
Ink on the lines of the letter you're reading
Can't stand in for me 'cause baby I'm leaving
Sunday morning pews are full
Preachers preaching, his eyes are dull
From the whisky and last night
Cold thin hands on his neighbour's wife
You can tell me I'm a fool
Had it all on a silver spoon
The bed I made has grown cold
And there's rust on the band of gold
Now I'm riding on an old dirt road
Empty wallet and worn out clothes
But my soul is sanctified
I'm walking on the sunny side
I searched for truth etc
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13. |
Hard Times
04:11
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On Monday morning
The man is coming
And he will take
Our farm away
And On Tuesday
We'll be homeless
On the road
The laid long day
Three bad winters
And 2 dry summers
Crops lie dying
In the barren fields
Brother Joe is drinking
Bourbon whiskey
From the bottle
So it won't be real
You can pray for me, mother
Sister, shed your tears
Father, cousins and brother
Hope to God someone hears
There's an east wind that is blowing
Can you feel it in your bones
There's no good that's a-coming
A devil's bargain set in stone
Hard times are here don't you know
There's cracks in the walls of Jericho
Too many people lied
While others stood aside
There's no gold and no rainbow
Grandfather told me
That he remembered
As a small boy
In the dustbowl days
Piled all they owned
In their old Packard
Headed out west
To Californiaay
There's no new land now, no promise
No sweet, unturned earth
Just a battered old trailer
On the edge of Nothingworth
It takes a lifetime, of working
Long days and sleepless nights
In a day the bank took it
You can't tell me that is right
Hard times are here don't you know
There's cracks in the walls of Jericho
Too many people lied
While others stood aside
There's no gold and no rainbow
There's no gold and no rainbow
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14. |
Billy Wright 1893 - 2014
04:04
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Billy Wright Was a country lad
Born in 1893
In the sight of St Saviours Spire
On a cold grey January
His father was a working man
Back bent in the fields
This was the way in England's shires
For the past thousand years
Billy boy grew straight and strong
From years at the plough
He loved to walk the woods and lanes
Taken by the tarmac now
Billy loved a pretty girl
Her hair was fine spun gold
They dreamed of the life they'd live
And together they'd grow old
From far away came the battle call
Sign up boys, we need you all
From the longbow's sting to the cannon's roar
Young men have left for a foreign war
Billy Wright was a country lad
With dreams of marching home
In that hell of blood and bone
He was destroyed and died alone
From far away came the postmans call
His death kissed face said it all
A life unlived is like an empty hall
Where widows walk and empires fall
When you walk through an English wood
Soft green beauty all around
Spare a thought for Billy Wright
A hundred years in the cold dark ground
Billy Wright was a country lad
Born in 1893
He has no grave just a marker stone
And immortality
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