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Midnight Sun
03:13
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Midnight sun when midnight's come
Shines as bright at midnight as it does at noon
With a light so bright it can hide from sight
A billion stars and a big 'ol moon
"But where you going when the summer's end
Brings the noon-time night and the freezing winds?"
I'm gonna stick right here an' stay where I am
You see the midnight sun sticks with a man
When there ain't no night all that's left is light
When there ain't no nothin' all that's left is one
When the silence is gone all that's left is a song
To remind us of the midnight sun
"But where you going when there's nothing left?
Not you sister nor your brother nor your parents?"
I'm gonna stick right here, I'm gonna hang around
An' catch the midnight sun goin' down
When the clock struck twelve you were by yourself
You were out there man, yeah you were far as you could get
Whet your toes froze you cried, "there she blows!"
And the midnight sun finally set
Now where you going till the sun comes back?
Gonna stumble and a-fumble in the cold and the black?
"I'm gonna stick right here, I ain't goin' nowhere,
I seen the the midnight sun and now I don't care"
Midnight sun when midnight's come
Shines as bright at midnight as it does at noon
With a light so bright it can hide from sight
A billion stars and a big 'ol moon
"But where you going when the summer's end
Brings the noon-time night and the freezing winds?"
I'm gonna stick right here an' stay where I am
You see the midnight sun sticks with a man
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Moonlit Night
03:04
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On a moonlit night we walk in the forest
A moonlit night with you
The moon is bright and my heart is restless
on this moonlit night, what we gonna do?
The nightingale sings in the distance
The song he sings he sings for his mistress
Moonlit night, we walk in silence
You seem to know what I am after
On my moonlit night with you
Try to take it slow though my heart just beats faster
As the moonlit night continues
How does it feel to know I'm beside you,
Is it really real like do you feel it deep inside you?
Moonlit night, we walk in silence
The shadows can no longer hide you
On a moonlit night I can see
I take your hand and I guide you
On this moonlit night, you and me
But what you don't show is still lost in mystery
How will I know if you won't tell me?
Moonlit night, we walk in silence
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Winter's Cache
03:44
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When will you tell me your secrets?
I have been dying to know
Where you left all your footprints,
Under the fresh fallen snow?
They lead to that cabin you see
Lost in the pines
And though the footprints are yours
They lead to something that's mine
Once it seemed there was nothing
I wished to conceal
My love for you turned into something
Like pride or like zeal
And it shined like the light
Of fifty summer suns
It shined, it made itself clear
To each and everyone
Now I cling to my shadows,
They hide my secret property
And I constantly follow
Wherever it is that they lead me
Into the darkest of woods
Where no man has ever walked
To preserve my perishing goods
To cache my winter stock
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Soft and Low
04:49
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The first time I heard you sing
I couldn't keep from shivering
But I don't think it was because I was cold
It was the way you sang, you sang soft and low
Soft and low, soft and low
It's my very favorite way
For a song to go
Soft and low, soft and low
Soft and low
I love you baby, that's a fact
And the love I give to you I don't even ask for it back
And you might ask, "Well then, where does that love go?"
Well it goes down somewhere soft and low
Soft and low, soft and low
It's my very favorite place
For my love to go
Soft and low, soft and low
Soft and low
When I ain't got no more days left
When this heart of mine stops beating soft and low in my chest
Well there's just one thing that I know
I'm going out singing soft and low
Soft and low, soft and low
It's my very favorite way
For a song to go
Soft and low, soft and low
Soft and low
Soft and low, soft and low
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Your heart sits like a yonder star
Out on the horizon, very far
I keep on following into the dawn
Because my heart wants to go on
As far, as far, as far as the heart will go
Yes, as far, as far, as far as the heart will go
My feet may ache, I might have callused hands
My back may break, leaving me unable to stand
But I keep on moving, on down that road
Because my heart still wants to go
As far, as far, as far as the heart will go
Yes, as far, as far, as far as the heart will go
I've been to Africa, been to Timbuktu
Longest trip I will ever take is loving you...
Get me out of the city, into the woods
Get me somewhere pretty where the people are good
And I'll love you strong, I'll love you pure
I'll love you like a song you can sing forever
'Cause that's as far, as far, as far as the heart will go
Yes, as far, as far, as far as the heart will go
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Drinking Cup
03:56
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Early in the morning with the sun not yet come up
I went out on my pony and I left behind my love
Between the fields of barley and the glowing sky above
I left my love behind me but I brought my drinking cup
Cup, my cup, my drinking cup, my cup I love you so
Cup of aching cup of waking, cup of pain and woe
Cup of worries, cup so mean, cup of deep sorrow
Cup of freedom, cup of dreams, cup of wine that flows
I saddled up my pony and I rode far away
And then I set that pony free and I sat to drink all day
And thought about my true love and just what she would think
When she'd awaken and be forsaken for my cup of drink
Cup, my cup, my drinking cup, my cup I love you so
Cup of aching cup of waking, cup of pain and woe
Cup of worries, cup so mean, cup of deep sorrow
Cup of freedom, cup of dreams, cup of wine that flows
"One sad day they will find you with your hand in a death grip
Upon that cup which you hold up to your lips to take a sip
They'll put you in a coffin and then the lid they'll shut
You'll leave this world behind you but you'll bring that drinking cup"
Cup, my cup, my drinking cup, my cup I love you so
Cup of aching cup of waking, cup of pain and woe
Cup of worries, cup so mean, cup of deep sorrow
Cup of freedom, cup of dreams, cup of wine that flows
I thought that my pony had run off to be seen no more,
But alone out in the wilderness he must have gotten bored
For suddenly I seen him comin' at a steady gallop
My pony come back to drink with me from my drinking cup
Cup, my cup, my drinking cup, my cup I love you so
Cup of aching cup of waking, cup of pain and woe
Cup of worries, cup so mean, cup of deep sorrow
Cup of freedom, cup of dreams, cup of wine that flows
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Lonely in Lolo
04:14
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Well the snow is finally falling and the birds have all flown
It's winter in Montana and your friends are going home
And you'd like to write a letter but you can't reckon who
You'd rather take the time to write your thoughts down to
And anyway that mail box is broke it makes letters disappear
Every time you open it there's nothing there
But buy some Christmas cards and try to write
And hope that Lolo will do for tonight
And you never saw her coming but she's here just the same
To break your back with kindness and to forget your name
And if you'd 'a never met her or if she'd 'a never come around
You'd be hard pressed to find a reason for feeling so low down
This new girl we'd hoped would never come
Is doing all the same things the other one 'a done
But come your hair back tie those shoes tight
And hope that Lolo will do for tonight
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8. |
I Love Jackie
03:04
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I love Jackie
I love Jackie
And I know she don't love me
But I love Jackie
Spring time in Montana
Lots of girls go walking 'round
Susie goes a-walkin', so does Hannah
Jenny and Jesse and Jackie Brown
And I know she don't love me
But I love Jackie
Her brothers and her parents, they all say
That she is too good for me
Even though it's true what they say
They don't have to say it to Jackie
And I know she don't love me
But I love Jackie
I love Jackie
I love Jackie
And I know she don't love me
But I love Jackie
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When I met the girl with the golden guitar
I had never seen anything so pretty
Right away I knew it just had to be her
The way her curves fit up against my knee
Her long straight neck her golden hair strings
I just stood and stared
She wasn't a guitar, she was everything
But it was nothing compared to when the golden girl'd sing
And when my fingers strummed where they're supposed to strum
I could not play a wrong note
And the chords started to shimmer and hum
And the melodies started to float
And the songs welled up like water from a spring
They flowed out and on and on
Until finally like a river raging
And it wouldn't be long till the golden girl'd sing
There are birds whose songs are sung in the forest
Melodies that float on the air
Flying south they don't stop to take a rest
They'd rather stay up there
Wolves that howl through sharp white fangs
Whales are moaning in the deep
And country boys who can croon and twang
But they just don't compete to when the golden girl sang
And later on at the end of the hoedown
I asked her, "where you going to next?"
And after she'd had a good look around
She told me, "well, with you I guess"
And we went out together when the night was done
Into that gold morning light
I was in love, I guess she wasn't alone
And it was just like when the golden girl'd sung
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10. |
Lover Come Up
03:23
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Lover come up from the valley
Come up in the brightness of day
Carrying bottles of Burgundy
Saying that she would stay
Lover come up from the valley
Come up when the day was so bright
But when the bottles were empty
I left in the cover of night
Lover come down from the mountain
Dressed in very fine lace
Carrying a beaming lantern
So I could see her face
Lover come down from the mountain
Dressed in clothes so plain
Carrying this time no lantern
And I couldn't see her the same
And that night the wind blew and the snow flew
That night we froze to the bone
And there was a tent where the others went
And the tent where I slept alone
Lover gone down to the valley
Where no one was in sight
Lover gone down to the valley
Finding only empty bottles in the night
Lover gone up to the mountain
Where no one could be found
Lover gone up to the mountain
Finding only plain clothes on the ground
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