Girl From The North Country

from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)


with Johnny Cash from Nashville Skyline (1969)


if you’re traveling the north country fair
where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
remember me to one who lives there
she once was a true love of mine

if you go when snowflakes storm
when the rivers freeze and summer ends
please see she has a coat so warm
to keep her from the howling winds

please see if her hair hangs long
if it rolls and flows all down her breast
see for me if her hair is hanging long
for that’s the way i remember her best

i’m wondering if she remembers me at all
many times i’ve often prayed
in the darkness of my night
in the brightness of my day

so if you’re traveling in the north country fair
where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
remember me to one who lives there
she once was a true love of mine

--bob dylan

Rainstorm In The Mojave

Doug Lang
Rainstorm in the Mojave

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain.
There are many forms of thirst.
--William Langewiesche

Anne Briggs: "Willie O'Winsbury"

Anne Briggs
Willie O'Winsbury

Youngbloods: "Wine Song"

Youngbloods
Wine Song

If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons we should drink:
Good wine, a friend, or being dry,
Or lest we should be by and by,
Or any other reason why.
--Henry Aldrich (1647--1710)

Butchie's Tune

Lovin' Spoonful
Butchie's Tune

North Country Blues

Bob Dylan
North Country Blues
Newport Folk Festival 1963

(subtitled in Turkish)

Restless Farewell/Parting Glass

Eleanor Shanley/Ronnie Drew
Restless Farewell /Parting Glass

Johnny Western: "Ballad Of Paladin"

Johnny Western: "Ballad of Paladin"

he travels on to wherever he must
a chess knight of silver is his badge of trust
there are campfire legends that the plainsmen spin
of the man with the gun, of the man called Paladin
Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin, so far from home

Randy Newman: "Baltimore"

beat up little seagull
on a marble stair
trying to find the ocean
looking everywhere
hard times in the city
in a hard town by the sea
ain't nowhere to run to
there ain't nothing here for free
hooker on the corner
waiting for a train
drunk lying on the sidewalk
sleeping in the rain
and they hide their faces
and they hide their eyes
'cause the city's dying
and they don't know why
oh Baltimore
man it's hard just to live
oh, Baltimore
man, it's hard just to live
just to live
--randy newman

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

if i should fall from grace with god
where no doctor can relieve me
if i'm buried 'neath the sod
but the angels won't receive me
let me go boys
let me go boys
let me go down in the mud
where the rivers all run dry
--the pogues

(Meet Me) In Paradise Alley

now there's a counterfeit moon
and i'm seeing right through it
'cause the dawn spent it all in one place
and we'll rise to the top of the morning tonight
you can ride on my shoulders
and i'll show you the way
if you meet me in Paradise Alley tonight
we'll leave town in a bottle of whiskey
so come on, you old scarecrow
and be a wheel, not a lamppost
just put a saddle on a wishbone
and you're halfway there
--tom waits
from (meet me) in paradise alley

The Wildwood Weed

Jim Stafford

The Wildwood Weed

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
--Willie Nelson

Three Mile Island

Pinkard & Bowden
Three Mile Island

Mariachi Cabos: "Another Brick In The Wall"

Field Commander Cohen

Field Commander Cohen
he was our
most important spy
wounded in the line of duty
parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties
urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles
leave it all and like a man
came back to nothing special
such as waiting rooms
and ticket lines
silver bullet suicides
messianic ocean tides
racial roller-coaster rides
and other forms of boredom
advertised as poetry


i know you need your sleep now
i know your life's been hard
but many men have fallen
where you promised to stand guard



i never asked but
i heard that you cast
your lot along with the poor
but then i overheard
your prayer
that you be this
and nothing more
than just some
grateful faithful
favorite singing millionaire
the patron saint of envy
and the grocer of despair
working for the Yankee dollar




i know you need your sleep now
i know your life's been hard
but many men have fallen
where you promised to stand guard


ah lover
come and lie with me
if my lover is who you are
and be your
sweetest self a while
until i ask for more
my child
then let the other selves
be rung
let them manifest and come
`til love is pierced
and love is hung
and every taste
is on the tongue
and every kind
of freedom done
then oh my love
oh my love oh my love

--leonard cohen
hannover, germany 1979

Watch The Stars

Jacqui McShee/John Renbourn

Watch the Stars

Hank Snow: "I've Been Everywhere"

i was toting my pack
along the dusty Winnemucca road
when along came a semi
with a high and
canvas covered load
"if you're going to Winnemucca, Mack
with me you can ride"
so i climbed into the cab
and then i
settled down inside
he asked me if
i'd seen a road
with so much dust and sand
and i said
"listen, Bud,
i've traveled every road
in this here land"

Hank Snow: "I've Been Everywhere"

Big Science

Laurie Anderson

Big Science

It's All Too Much

it's all
too much
for me
to take
the love
that is
shining
all around you
everywhere
it's what
you make
for us
to take
it's all
too much

--george harrison


Beatles
It's All Too Much

Emmylou Harris In Concert 1977

Emmylou Harris


Old Grey Whistle Test


1977

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1)
feeling single, seeing double
i'll be your san antone rose
2)
pancho and lefty
making believe
3)
c'est la vie
tulsa queen
4)
together again
luxury liner
5)
ooh las vegas
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with Hank de Vito, Glen Hardin, Rodney Crowell,
Albert Lee, Emory Gordy and John Ware

Days Of Wine And Roses

the days of wine and roses
laugh and run away
like a child at play
through a meadowland
toward a closing door
a door marked never more
that wasn't there before

the lonely night discloses
just a passing breeze
filled with memories
of the golden smile
that introduced me to
the days of wine and roses
and you

--henry mancini


Bill Evans
Days of Wine and Roses

Delroy Wilson: "The Last Thing On My Mind"

Delroy Wilson

The Last Thing on my Mind





are you going away with no word of farewell?
will there be not a trace left behind?
well i could have loved you better.
i didn't mean to be unkind.
you know that was the last thing on my mind.
--tom paxton

He's Gone

Grateful Dead


9/18/74


He's Gone





nine mile skid on a ten mile ride
hot as a pistol but cool inside