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BRAVER NEWER WORLD
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Tell me now that you know how
To greet the dawn each day.
Fearless and unfettered, stand
Before the sun and pray.
There's no controversy
Let silence judge your plea
For justice or for mercy.
They both will set you free.
It's a braver, newer world you've found,
Rolling 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round
It's a braver, newer world you've found.
Show me know that you know how
To play the winning game.
Laughing 'til the sky stands still
With neither praise nor blame.
There's still time for heaven,
Though we're already there.
The daily bread will leaven
All hope, all pain, all care.
It's a braver, newer world you've found,
Rolling 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round.
It's a braver, newer world you've found.
Teach me now that you know how
To learn the learner's art.
Open with the master's myth
And play with all your heart.
Listen to your singing,
Love will be your voice.
The gift that you are bringing
Is all for all, your choice.
It's a braver, newer world you've found,
Rolling 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round.
It's a braver, newer world you've found.
COME FLY AWAY
A.B. Strehli, Jr.
I saw you yonder
Where soon the snows will cover
There, where the columbine will grow
Then I saw something
Makes me know that I know nothing
While high upon a steady wing
The wild geese make their way
Amber, yellow fields
Topaz red and rust reveal
There's still something
You're yearning for
Seasons come, seasons go
Little one you know
Come here and take my hand
Help me understand
We're gonna fly away
We're gonna fly away
We'll fly and fly and fly and fly and fly
And maybe we'll find home.
Winter's coming, thought's abiding
Like a fox where some moon's hiding
In the dark you see a distant glow
So you go on in your dreams
Where what it is is what it seems
While all along the source of spring
Is living in a song
We're gonna fly away
We're gonna fly away
We'll fly and fly and fly and fly and fly
Until we find our home.
We're gonna fly away
We're gonna fly away
We'll fly and fly and fly and fly and fly
The earth is still our home.
BORDERLAND
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, David Hammond
Well, I headed back to the Borderland
When the home-guard went insane.
No use trying to work with people
Who can't tell fire from rain.
The Judge had tried to hitch a ride
But I only took him half way.
Friends are friends, but in the Borderland
You can't be careful of what you say.
The Sheriff sent me every warning he could
But I knew more than he.
My home is both sides of the Borderland
So he knows where I'll be.
The Businessman in a sleek sedan
Thought he could beat me here,
But roads fade out before you reach the line
And the signposts disappear.
So good to be home in the Borderland
Where things are not what they seem.
So good to be home in the Borderland
Between the dawn and the dream.
The brown-eyed girl from the battleground
Had just met me half-way.
The Border-Guard had let her pass
But said you could not stay.
She gazed upon the mountain above
And she reached out her hand.
The she let go with all her might
And loved the Borderland.
So good to be home in the Borderland
Where things are not what they seem.
So good to be home in the Borderland
Between the dawn and the dream
HEADED FOR A FALL
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, David Hammond
and Kevin Welch
You might be peeking in your mailbox
You might be waiting for a call
There might be only stars to see
If you're not waiting there for me
I believe you're headed for a fall
You might be staring in your mirror
Crying while you put your makeup on
Where you gonna go tonight
To find the thing that makes it right
What will you do when you find It's gone?
Don't put your dreams way up there in the
clouds
I don't think that's what It's all about
You can't get much higher when you're so above it all
I'll be waiting here when you hit bottom
I believe you're headed for a fall.
We'll have days together in the sunshine
Autumn's twilight, winter's darkness too
Darlin' I will hold you, my love will enfold you
Cause you need me, Babe, just like I need you
Don't put your dreams way up there in the
clouds
I don't think that's what It's all about
You can't get much higher when you're so above it all
I'll be waiting here when you hit bottom
I believe you're headed for a fall.
LONG, LONG TIME
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, David Hammond
Well I left my home looking for green grass
Headed for Pine Ridge and points beyond
But on the road I met an impasse
Every direction looked just like home
There is a road, there is a mountain.
With many stops along the way
How many Days? I am not counting
It's been a long, long time you've been away
Well a flower grows in a deep dark canyon
Where the river wanders to leave the trail
And the night bird searches for her companion
Who sings of sunlight behind the veil.
Everyone knows what makes the dove sing
And now I know you've gone to stay
How many nights? I am not counting
It's been a long, long time you've been away
Now I walk alone down streets of silver
In empty hollows wet with the dew
In the sudden stillness of a summer morning
In all my dreams I walk with you
There is a rose there is a fountain
And I have found that lost highway
How many years? I have stopped counting
It's been a long, long time I've been away
It's been a long, long time I've been away
SALLY
A.B. Strehli, Jr.
Sally, What can I say about you
That would be true without you,
With your ribbons hanging rainbows in your
hand?
You know he's young and still unproven
And to himself unspoken
And though his roads like thieves appear,
Lead him to think he's left what's near,
He's gonna look for you to be who you are.
Your friends are telling you to leave him,
As though they really knew him,
While they rob you with their honor and your name.
But you won't give up now with all your
pure love,
Give up with all your strong love.
He's gonna know when he's just as far as any
body goes
And he'll look for you to be who you are.
Sometimes my thinking gets so heavy, I
feel I
stand too closely.
And it's so useless, somehow I should run
away.
But that's not the truth no matter what is,
No matter who they say is
It's you and you alone can be sure that you're
not wrong
You've got all you need to be who you are.
Sally, What can I say about you
That would be true without you,
With your ribbons hanging rainbows in your
hand?
You know he's young and still unproven
And to himself unspoken
And though his roads like thieves appear,
Lead him to think he's left what's near
He's gonna look for you to be who you are.
THERE SHE GOES
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
There she goes, she's magic
Do you know why she cries?
You see the heart of heaven in her eyes.
She walks upon the waters
Of your dreams and lies
Upon your bed of love and life and dies.
There she goes
Even in small ways
There she goes
It seems like always
There she goes, she's magic
I see her everywhere.
Her dancing and delight defy despair
She troubles me with troubles
And a silent stare
Pretending she's pretending I don't care.
There she goes, she's magic
If you could understand
The faith and trust her love and light demand
With prophecy and poetry
At her command
She holds the key to heaven in her hand
There she goes, she's magic
Do you know why she cries?
She sees the heart of heaven in your eyes.
WHERE IS LOVE NOW
Sam Phillips
If I can wait here for you
Without hope or knowing what to do
If I can watch the light fade away
Without fear or knowing what to say
Cry the tears from my eyes
Leave me here long enough to realize
Where is love now?
Where is love now?
Out here in the dark
If I can hold all my dreams
Through the night of the way life sometimes
seems
If I can't see where to go
I'll stay lost in silence 'til I know
Cry the tears from my eyes
Leave me here long enough to realize
Where is love now?
Where is love now?
Out here in the dark
Where is love now?
Where is love now?
Out here in the dark
BLACK SNAKE MOAN
Blind Lemon Jefferson
(I adapted it from Jack Elliot's adaptation.)
Well, well ain't got no momma now
Yeah ~ ain't got no momma now.
She told me late last night
You don't need no momma no~how.
Set here wonderin' would a matchbox hold
my
clothes
Yeah ~ matchbox hold my clothes
I ain't got so many matches
But Lord I got so doggone far to go.
I got a great long snake crawlin' around
my room.
Yeah ~ crawlin' around my room.
Handsome pretty momma better come down
here
Take that long snake soon.
That must been a bedbug, I know a chinch
can't bit that hard.
Yeah ~ chinch can't bit that hard.
Asked my woman for fifty cents.
She said Jimmie I ain't got a dime in the yard.
Well, well ain't got no momma now
Yeah ~ ain't got no momma now.
She told me late last night
You don't need no momma no~how.
BECAUSE OF THE WIND
Joe Ely
Do you know why the trees bend
At the West Texas border?
Do you know why they bend,
And sway and twine?
The trees bend because of the wind
Along that lonesome border.
The trees bend because of the wind
All along the line.
Have you seen my Caroleen
Up in Amarillo?
Have you seen my Caroleen
The one that I call mine?
Well, if you see my Caroleen
With her hair of yellow
If you see my Caroleen
Tell her I'm doin' fine.
She is to me just like the breeze
That blows from Corpus Christi.
She is to me just like the breeze
That blows up from the sea.
Well, if she is like the breeze
That blows from Corpus Christi
Then I must be like the trees,
Cause Caroleen blows through me.
Do you know why the trees bend
At the West Texas border?
Do you know why they bend,
And sway and twine?
The trees bend because of the wind
Along that lonesome border.
The trees bend because of the wind
Almost all the time.
The trees bend because of the wind
All along the line.
OUTSIDE THE LINES
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
I painted myself into a corner
But footprints
Are just about to become part of my design
Now that I've found myself
Over the line.
And I cannot blame any body
But myself
Cause every single choice I ever made was mine
And now I find myself
A little outta line.
You see the signs
A lovelight shines
Between the lines
A lovelight shines
Between the lines
There's a lot of water under the bridges
That are burning
But It's a fact we can finally float or fly just fine
But Baby don't get tangled
In the bottom line.
Looking back into the darkness
Will only
Blind your mind and heart and feed you that
same old line
Come and we will cross
The great divine
You see the signs
A lovelight shines
Between the lines
A lovelight shines
Between the lines
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