Bang The Drum Slowly Lyrics - Emmylou Harris

I meant to ask you how to fix that car 

I always meant to ask you about the war 

And what you saw across a bridge too far 

Did it leave a scar. 

Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel 

Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal 

And still you found the ground beneath your wheels 

How did it feel. 

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly 

To dust be returning from dust we begin 

Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy 

Above and below me world without end. 

I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost 

And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed 

There was still that line that you would never cross 

At any cost. 

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I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed 

With nothing but your heart up your sleeve 

And if you ever really were deceived 

By the likes of me. 

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly 

To dust be returning from dust we begin 

Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy 

Above and below me world without end. 

Gone now is the day and gone the sun 

There is peace tonight all over Arlington 

But the songs of my life will still be sung 

By the light of the moon you hung. 

I meant to ask you how to plow that field 

I meant to bring you water from the well 

And be the one beside you when you fell 

Could you tell. 

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Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly 

To dust be returning from dust we begin 

Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy 

Above and below me world without end...