If your travelin thru the North Country fair
And the wind blows heavy on the border-line
See for me she has a coat so warm
For she once was a true love of mine!

dedicated to Judy Drake.....<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>


If anyone has words and music for Dylans
'Girl From the North Country'

Would you post them please! Highly appreciated....

Silent Voices


In the woods one night, round a fire bright
Were my loved ones, dead and gone,
I stood and stared in the frosty air,
And the moon was pale and drawn;
Oh, they looked at me and smiled at me
And they beckoned me to a chair,
But I stood amazed, in the glowing blaze
And I thought, "Was I really there?"

CHORUS:
Oh, their voices rang and the coyotes sang,
And the laughter began to roar.
Round the crackling might of the fire bright
Were the voices I shall hear no more.

"Sit down" they said and I shook my head
To clear the visions of my dream,
But the forms they stayed so I obeyed,
And their eyes began to gleam
They began to sing and the woods to ring,
Twas a song that I heard before,
Oh, in the fiery heat they sounded sweet
The voices I shall hear no more

(Chorus)

The coyotes wailed as they told their tales
Of the life upon the range;
I looked around as the flames died down
And the skies began to change.
The mists arose and I watched them go
And my heart grew pale with woe,
With a tearful cry I bade goodbye
To the voices I'll hear no more.

(Chorus)

Now among the trees in the wintry breeze
On the paths I walk alone
With great delight I found where the fire bright
Burned red among the stones.
Amidst the storm the coals were warm
From the craic of the night before,
I smiled my friend for in the wind
Whispered the voices I'll hear no more.

© Nathan Tompkins

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"On the Nickel" by Tom Waits ... does it nail it, or what? And if anyone knows where I could find the sheet music ...

*Muffy wish I could help ya...<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

this is longer than a narrative (as Larry would say, "Why don't you just post the entire Blood on the Tracks"????

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If You Would Just Drop By

Friends I used to know are coming by
To ask me if my situation's high
'Cause sometimes I just stare at the sky
Up is down before Her crown I cry

CHORUS:
If you would just drop by sometime
If you would just drop by
If you can possibly make it up sometime
I can be there if I try

The whole world keeps spinnin' me' round
Bringing me up and bringing me down
But I can't get there with my feet on the ground
Maybe I oughta start digging a hole around my feet on the ground

CHORUS:
You know once in awhile as I sit and stare
I get the feeling that there's no one there
Look at me now as I roll off my chair
How did I know that a chair
could be out where I usually stare?

W & M adg
C1969 Howard Beach Music Inc. (ASCAP)

Not a problem, RB. Thanks for the kind thought. I spent so many years learning and playing by ear, that having sheet music is like being spoiled.

"The world just keeps getting bigger, once you're out there, on your own." T. Waits

Of course, I always did like "Old '55" too.

some one at the cat might be able to help you once it gets back up and running....

Muffy, I haven't come across any specifically, but you can try: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Hope this helps! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>
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I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all . . .
Still my guitar gently weeps.

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"Ridin on that lizard
in the 30" coal
see the cables sparklin', watch the little wheels roll
now, Lord have mercy
on a Miner's soul
down on his poor kneees
in the 30" coal"

Johnny Irion

Thanks, Ker. That's precisely the type of link that helps.

"Say that you love. There is enough silence beyond the grave."
Graffiti in Ladies' room at a bar (where I worked for several years) on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.

-- edited for the sake of clarity, and hopefully it worked --

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The Bravest

The first plane hit the other tower right after I came in
It left a fiery gaping hole where offices had been
We stood and watched in horror as we saw the first ones fall
Then someone yelled Get out! Get out! They're trying to kill us all
I grabbed the pictures from my desk and joined the flight for life
With every step I called the names of my children and my wife
And then we heard them coming up from several floors below
A crowd of firefighters with their heavy gear in tow

Chorus:
Now every time I try to sleep
I'm haunted by the sound
Of firemen pounding up the stairs
While we were running down

And when we met them on the stairs they said we were to slow
Get out! Get out! They yelled at us the whole things gonna go
They didn't have to tell us twice we'd seen the world on fire
We kept on running down the stairs while they kept climbing higher

chorus

Thank God we made it to the street, we ran through ash and smoke
I didn't know which way to go I thought that I would choke
A fireman took me by the arm and pointed me uptown
And Christ I heard him whisper as the tower came roaring down
So now I go to funerals for men I never knew
The pipers play Amazing Grace as the coffins come in view
They must have seen it coming as they turned to face the fire
They sent us down to safety and they kept climbing higher

Now every time I try to sleep
I'm haunted by the sound
Of firemen pounding up the stairs
While we were running down

Tom Paxton

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John C, the bravest is probably one of the best songs to come out of that tragedy....I cannot wait til Paxton records it next year.....and I hope I get to hear him sing it when I go see him in February....

Wow. Thanks, JohnC.

thanks, john! that's incredible..

I saw this posted on the front page. What can I say. I'm slumming it!

*what incredible lyrics for a song...Paxton surely got this one
down to the t.

Thanks John, everybody

*like sherry said once. It's wierd thanking people for giving you the weepie's....<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/wink.gif" width=15 height=15>

remembering, honoring, and, moving on.....

"One of these days I'm gonna find that river and maybe I'll go down"

Sarah Lee Guthrie