Ft. Worth Blues

Ft. Worth Blues/Steve Earle TvZ tribute song

Steve said he wrote Fort Worth Blues in Galway, Ireland earlier this
year as his way of dealing with Townes Van Zandt's death.
I think it's a really lovely song

FORT WORTH BLUES

In Fort Worth all the neon's burnin' bright
Pretty lights green and blue
They'd shut down all the honky-tonks tonight
And say a prayer or two if they only knew

You always said the highway was your home
But we both know that ain't true
It's just the only place a man can go
When he don't know where he's travellin' to

And Colorado's always clean and healin'
And Tennessee in spring is green and cool
It never really was your kind of town
But you went around with the Fort Worth Blues

And somewhere up above the great divide
Where the sky is wide and the clouds are few
A man can see his way clear to the light
Ah just hold on tight that's all you gotta do

And they say Texas weather's always changin'
One thing change'll bring is somethin' new
And Houston really ain't that bad a town
So you hung around with the Fort Worth Blues

There's a full moon over Galway Bay tonight
Silver light over green and blue
And every place I travel through I find
Some kinda sign that you've been through

And Amsterdam's always good for grievin'
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kinda town
So I walked around with the Fort Worth Blues

by Steve Earle
 

YouTube - Steve Earle : Fort Worth Blues

YouTube - Steve Earle - Fort Worth Blues
-Ahhh... Steve Earle hit this one out of the park. Townes was his buddy, and I guess he was sending him along his journey with a song. Beautiful. Thanks for posting it.

Ode To Billie Joe

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day;
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay.
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat,
And Mama hollered out the back door "Y'all remember to wipe your feet!"
And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge.
Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas,
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please.
There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow..."
And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow.
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show.
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece of apple pie. You know it don't seem right.
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."

And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite.
That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today.
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge."

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo.
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge...

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

YouTube - Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe

Your Sister Cried

Well I stared out of the windshield into the rain so light
And I turned on my dims and somebody flashed me their brights And I reached over and turned the radio way down low. Your sister cried all the way home
Lightning crashed and the road shone like a mirror A dog came out of the ditch then he disappeared And I remembered a conversation we once had on the phone Your sister cried all the way home
I’ll never know how you got into such a mess Why do the bridesmaids all have to wear the same dress? Everybody said you looked real good But I think you looked stoned
Your sister cried all the way home Your sister cried all the way home Your sister cried all the way home Your sister cried all the way home.

Mary Gauthier | Songs: Your Sister Cried. by Fred Eaglesmith.

green Gatsby

Gatsby (Pocahontas) - a fresh green breast of the new world. its vanished trees, the trees that made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

He did not know that it was already behind him.

if you believe me

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Out of paper is the little moon
And the beach
But if you love me just a little bit
It will all be real.

we have heard on high

servitude, frustrated angel: I can see why your friends get tired of you.

angels up above are weeping.

angels who live in shadow, said: Carlos, go on! Be gauche in life


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green squall jay hopler, hass no pinsky no hass, carlos drummond de andrade
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what heart heard, ghost guessed. .. all the new poems about loss. all the thinking. and all the old. everything under the sun.

lines in mind

delight goes all through you


That’s not what you said.

I know this story.


they hit this one so far out of the park, it's still traveling.

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me, re litl girl & pug. Cruise to Nicholson in AFewGoodMen. ViggoMortenson in AHistofViolence (posted by m @ 11:21 AM). ThisBlogSits re Rosie commercial for Volvo.
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Would you

youtube - Tanya tucker would you lay with me


ggl - would you lay with me in a field of stone -

Would you lay with me, in a field of stone?
If my needs were strong, would you lay with me?


Will you still love me, when I'm down and out?
In my time of trial, will you stand by me?


Would you lay with me, In a field of stone?
Should my lips grow dry, would you wet them, dear?

Will you bathe me, in the stream of life?
Would you still love me, when I'm down and out?

Would you lay with me, in a field of stone?
Should my lips grow dry, would you wet them, dear?

Tanya Tucker singing, written by David Allen Coe.

If I needed you would you come to me? would you come to me, and ease my pain? If you needed me, I would come to you. I would come to you, for to ease your pain.

also TVZ though I knew it as Lyle Lovett first. and this, again, TVZ:

If I had no place to fall - and I needed to -- Could I count on you? - to lay me down?
posted by m @ 1:57 PM

and would you lay with me in a field of stone is like this - Bonnie Prince Billy - Three Questions:
Say I found a piece of rock And put it in my pocket For the day that we are wed I put it in a locket Which is to hang around your neck As long as you see fit Well tell me o my love Do you think that you would wear it?
And on a day that threatens That the earth might open up When the birds have stopped their singing And the insects have shut up And all that's left between us Is somehow ... Oh would you split it with me, baby So that I wouldn't die?
And after all these things, There's a question that i must ask When everyone has called me (out And said I am the worst And asked for voices on my side My love, would you sing first? Would you say, "He's ok, He's better then the rest? He's innocent in god's eyes And in mine he is the best"?

for there is no place

aus wie ein Stern: denn da ist keine Stelle,
die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern.

All day I

ELMS by Louise Glück

All day I tried to distinguish
need from desire. Now, in the dark,
I feel only bitter sadness for us,
the builders, the planers of wood,
because I have been looking
steadily at these elms
and seen the process that creates
the writhing, stationary tree
is torment, and have understood
it will make no forms but twisted forms.

tell me

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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon

You're Not You by Michelle Wildgren

these are the kind of titles I like. what kind? simple. statements. implorative~ ah: from me to you. spoken to you. du.

if the weather is what happens
there will be movement for you and I

unbearable, really

"It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really.

excerpt from Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore- Ploughshares

what you want

What do you want me to do, stand on my goddamn head?
Please. Stand on your goddamn head.

	on Page 21: Lorrie Moore, Self-Help. 'How to be an other woman.'
	"... Stand on my goddamned head?" Whisper: "Please. Stand on your goddamned head." "It is ten o'clock," he says. "I'm coming over. ..."