Gillian Welch remember the sweetest winds they still blow across the south

In South Carolina there are many tall pines I remember the oak tree that we used to climb
But now when I'm lonesome, I always pretend That I'm getting the feel of a hickory wind

I started out younger at most everything but I'm younger now history my dear friend
All the riches and pleasures, what else could life bring?
But it makes me feel better each time it begins Calling me home, hickory wind

It's a hard way to find out that trouble is real In a far away city, with a far away feel
But it makes me feel better each time it begins Calling me home, hickory wind Keeps calling me home, hickory wind

a way with a file

freakwater/lyrics
Dog Gone Wrong

Slack up on the rope and she's bound to roam
Pulling up/out stakes/steaks and spitting out the bone
Give her an inch, she's looking for a mile
Give her a cake she's looking for a file
Give her a kiss, she's gonna suck the gold right out of your mouth
Give her a car and she'll be headed South


Guy Clark, She Aint Goin Nowhere Tabs, Chords, Lyrics

And the wind had its way with her hair.
And the blues had a way with her smile.
And she had a way of her own.
Like prisoners have a way with a file.

                       G          D(5) G/d(3) D
Well the wind had its way with her h---ai---r
    Em            A            D
And the blues have a way with her smile
            G        D(5) G/d(3) D
And she had a way of her o----w-----n
  A                          D
Like prisoners have a way with a file

what does that mean, what is a prisoner's way with a file ~ covert ~ secreted away, privately held, ~ nourished (worked at little every day)

..the water

You left the water running, when you left me alone.
Dan Penn

You don't miss your water, 'til your well run dry.
William Bell

tryin to find America with you babe

-

something made me crazy, baby, something maybe made you crazy too.

yo ho ho.

In the Mines, In the Mines

-My father and mother are both from Floyd County Ky and both of my grandfathers were coal miners and I remember going up in the hills when I was a kid and there was a old store there in Maytown and Momma would give us a dollar and all us kids would go to the store and there would be miners in there and they would be covered up with coal dust.

cmmt from TomLumpkins (1 year ago) on ytube - Jean Ritchie sings Blue Diamond Mines


oh- How Green Was My Valley. and the valley of them that have gone-

and her eyes are Wilson green.

Thirty some odd years ago, a young man came to Memphis.
Asking 'bout a rose that used to blossom in his world.
People never took the time to mind the young man's questions,
Until one day they heard him ask a little green-eyed girl:

What's your mama's name, child?
What's your mama's name?
Does she ever talk about a place called New Orleans.
Has she ever mentioned a man named Buford Wilson?
What's your mama's name, child?
What's your mama's name?

Twenty some odd years ago, a drunkard down in Memphis
Lost a month of life in labour to the county jail.
Just because he asked a little green-eyed girl a question,
And offered her a nickel's worth of candy if she'd tell.

A year and some odd days ago, an old man died in Memphis.
Just another wayward soul the county'd had to claim.
Inside the old man's ragged coat, they found a faded letter.
It said, You have a daughter and her eyes are Wilson green.

Tanya Tucker, What's Your Momma's Name - cowboylyrics

YouTube - Tanya Tucker -What's Your Mama's Name

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.