Joe Ely: "Me And Billy The Kid"

Joe Ely:
"Me and Billy the Kid"





"People
thought me
bad before,
but if ever
I should
get free,
I'll let
them know
what bad means."
--Billy the Kid
(to a reporter from the Daily New Mexican
after his capture at Stinking Springs)

But I Am Most In Need Of Hope

Tom Russell
"Guadalupe"
Raleigh, NC
6/13/10

There are ghosts out in the rain tonight/High up in those ancient trees/Lord, I've given up without a fight/Another blind fool on his knees/And all the Gods that I've abandoned/Begin to speak in simple tongues/Lord, suddenly I've come to know/There are no roads left to run/Now it's the hour of dogs a-barking/That's what the old ones used to say/It's first light or it's sundown/Before the children cease their play/When the mountains glow like mission wine/And turn grey like a Spanish roan/Ten thousand eyes will stop to worship/And turn away and head on home/She is reaching out her arms tonight/Lord, my poverty is real/I pray roses shall rain down on me/From Guadalupe on her hill/But who am I to doubt these mysteries/Cured in centuries of blood and candle smoke/I am the least of all your pilgrims here/I am most in need of hope/She appeared to Juan Diego/She left her image on his cape/Five hundred years of sorrow/Have not destroyed their deepest faith/But here I am your ragged disbeliever/Old doubting Thomas drowns in tears/As I watched your church sink through the earth/Like a heart worn down through fear/She is reaching out her arms tonight/Lord, my poverty is real/I pray roses shall rain down on me/From Guadalupe on her hill/But who am I to doubt these mysteries/Cured in centuries of blood and candle smoke/I am the least of all your pilgrims here/But I am most in need of hope/I am the least of all your pilgrims here/But I am most in need of hope

Take Me Down, Little Susie

Townes Van Zandt

"Dead Flowers"

She Belongs To Me

Grateful Dead
Chula Vista, Ca. 9/15/85

she never stumbles
she's got no place to fall
she's nobody's child
the Law can't touch her at all
--bob dylan (from "she belongs to me ")

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

Molly Tuttle:
"It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry "
with The Tuttles and AJ Lee
Strawberry Music Festival 2010

now the wintertime is coming
the windows are filled with frost
i went to tell everybody
but i could not get across
well i wanna be your lover, baby
i don’t wanna be your boss
don’t say i never warned you
when your train gets lost
--bob dylan

Pardon Me Boys If You Please

i'm a son
of the prairie
and the wind
that sweeps
the plain
now i'm going
to Arizona
just a rider
in the rain
--randy newman


Reckless Kelly/Joe Ely:
"Rider In The Rain"