I hope this letter finds you. Wherever you may be. Cause I mailed some awhile back. And they were all returned to me. . Aint nothin I can tell you bout the hometown.
She's waiting for me when I get home from work. But things just ain't the same. She turns out the light and cries in the dark. Won't answer when I call her name.
All rise, behold the famous disappearing man. Who comes in crimson robes but leaves in yellow rags. Hear now his ancient call to union. And the furious communion of the maiden and the stag.
In fair silver city on the blind side of fate. I grew up to manhood on the narrow and straight. But prideful i stumbeled, and foolish i fell. In the silken fine trammels of a cruel yankee belle.
236-6132 is the number of my love. Even though it's been some time since he made fair to answer. 'Cause he feints and fades from view like a fighter ducks a glove.
Every night about this time. She's waiting for a man. It could be me or it could be you. Who'll touch her with their hands. Someone left her long ago.
I was born Everett Ruess. I've been dead for sixty years. I was just a young boy in my twenties. The day I disappeared. . Into the Grand Escalante Badlands.
Standin barefoot in your kitchen door. Listenin to the soft evenin rain. Watchin you dryin off from your shower. You look at me like you dont know my name.
Down on the riverbed. Down on the riverbed. Down on the riverbed. I asked my lover for her hand. . A red tailed hawk circled overhead. A red tailed hawk circled overhead.
Who will take the coal from the mines?. Who will take the salt from the earth?. Who'll take the leaf and grow it to a tree?. Don't look now, it ain't you or me.
Who will take the coal from the mines?. Who will take the salt from the earth?. Who'll take the leaf and grow it to a tree?. Don't look now, it ain't you or me.
hot air hangs like a dead man. from a white oak tree. people sitting on porches. thinking how things used to be. dark night. dark night. . the neighborhood was changing.
Dave Alvin/Tom Russell. (Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI, and Frontera Music, ASCAP, administered by Bug Music). . I'm just tryin' to make a livin'. I'm an old man at thirty-nine.
The man in the bed isn't me. Now I slipped out the door and I'm runnin' free. Young and wild like I'll always be. But the man in the bed isn't me. . And these tremblin' hands, they're not mine.
Blackjack David came a-ridin through the wood. Singin so loud and merry. His voice was a-ringin through the green, green fields. And he spied a fair-haired maiden.
Baby black sky, black sky is all I see. Yeah, baby black sky, black sky is all I see. Please stand beside me baby. Shine your light for me. . Well, I been all around the world, aint nothin I aint seen.
There's a black-haired girl. Sittin' behind the bullet-proof glass. And she takes my money. Before I go and pump some gas. . As the cold rain falls on the parking lot.
Well when I was a young boy, I used to slip away. Down to the ashgrove to hear the old blues men play. There was big Joe and lightnin' and reverend Gary too.