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Prairie Pines
03:34
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Prairie Pines
Let me dream
and you will be
my sunrise on ol' prairie pines
near elms and oaks
where hummingbirds poke
when dreamy dawn breaks you'll be mine.
(chorus) Let me dream of you this morning
and let me dance without a warning.
I will pay you for this moment
my sunrise high upon old prairie pines.
The days are old
and a treasure untold
will greet me in the brand new morn
I'm fired and I'm lost
and these lands I've crossed
are filling my days with scorn.
(chorus)
Times they do change
lives rearrange
the river flowing down the line
but if there is no you
what am I to do?
my sunrise on old prairie pines
(chorus)
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Manitoba Sweetfields
03:47
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Manitoba Sweetfields
Have you ever seen the skies in Manitoba?
The deepest blue you'll ever care to know
and in it you will find the price of heaven
where farmers prayers are sent for crops to grow
I used to see the skies of Manitoba
turn dark and rain when fields were blowing dry
Those easy times are gone
as the summer dust blows on
oh my Manitoba sweetfieds should never die.
Hold on, you farmers
these fields are wet from snow
hold on, let's hope
this year the bumper crop will grow
These farms will remain in Manitoba
and these sons of the pioneers whose hearts
could read the sky
no matter what the cost
or the money that's been lost
oh my Manitoba sweetfieds will never die.
Have you ever seen the skies in Manitoba?
The deepest blue you'll ever care to know
and in it you will find the price of heaven
where farmers prayers are sent for crops to grow.
Those easy times are gone
as the summer dust blows on
oh my Manitoba sweetfieds should never die.
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'Peg County Picker
02:53
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Peg County Picker
How sweet the sound of music
my world and life are whole
when I can feel the ringing tones
that bless my merry soul
and when folks stop to ask me
where is this music from?
I'm a 'Peg county picker
and I'm not the only one.
(chorus)
I'm not the only one
having so much fun
I'm a 'Peg county picker
and I'm not the only one.
Grandpa played the guitar
and Grandma played the spoons
the other grandfolks taught my mama
old 'Peg county tunes
So I have come up through the ranks
armed with a memory
of the prettiest tunes you've ever heard
this side of Carberry.
(chorus)
I'll keep serenading as the prairie girls go by
and the hard edged weathered workers who light the city sky
for this is where I'm born and raised
and no man should leave his home
until he's sung a prairie song
to ease him as he roams.
(chorus)
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Flower On My Road To Hell
An hour and a half into nowhere
the night sky shining on
as I drive through the ruins
singing for the songs
thinking back to better days
before I was around
when Wilson Pickett ruled the jukebox
and country girls were all around.
Now I'm thinking back to yesterday
how you said to me,
"these days there's no future
in the way things used to be."
but I told you my darling
you're a flower on my road to hell
I'll carry you down with me
and the secrets that I can't tell
(chorus)
You're my flower on my road to hell
you're my shower raining on my wishing well
and my song that made it to the top of my charts
be strong,
don't ever take the laughter from your heart.
Some go on believing
they'll never catch their train
I'll always believe in someday
it's a word I'm always saying
someday we'll be together
through the shadows and the walls
through every kind of weather
protect each other when thunder falls.
(chorus)
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Tears In Bloom
03:11
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Tears In Bloom
There's too many children
running away from dreams
who turn from love
who embrace fear
and who carry guns through their empty halls
wishing a stranger harm.
(chorus)
Cry for America
cry for the violent victim
charmed by harm
and praising the doom.
Fall away
Fall away
the fear behind tears in bloom.
There are so many children
who pay a heavy price
for we can't see from their point of view
with what this world can teach
must we cover eyes
like dreamers of old
used to do?
(chorus)
To join hands singing to make each other proud
to live for years in peace and dreams
to share our stories and play no part
in teaching children what fear can mean.
(chorus)
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Meeting In Oxford
02:55
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Meeting In Oxford
There's a white meeting in Oxford and I don't want to go
Daddy said the old guard's there to take out so and so
(Chorus)
But I don't want to go
I don't want to go
There's a meeting there in Oxford
and I don't want to go
Politicians still endorse those crazy deeds they've done
But If I had my way I would let everybody run
(Chorus)
Daddy said we can't give up we've got to see this through
But I told daddy this is a thing I won't teach my kids to do
(Chorus)
These people you call monkeys have got burning in their souls
They believe in the same same old things we do and I don't want to go
(Chorus x2)
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7. |
The Countryside Of Life
03:23
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The Countryside Of Life
Life is an easy ride
rambling round the countryside
take a load off in your pickup truck
it's been so long since your heart got stuck
waiting for the wheels to turn
and some good cash to burn
rambling around the countryside of life.
Easy streets a gravel road
that turns and ends at the fishing hole
if only they could see you now
with all your dreams you could show them how
you left the county with your unsung verse
when you carried the devils curse
rambling around the countryside of life.
You made yourself hard to control
always falling for the jelly roll
after two years of breaking down
you couldn't find a ride in from town
a sweet angel took you in
she planted seeds with her red rose grin
and you rambled around the countryside of life.
Life is an easy ride
rambling round the countryside
take a load off in your pickup truck
it's been warm since your heart got stuck
waiting for the wheels to turn
and some good cash to burn
rambling around the countryside of life.
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Laplant Road
04:15
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Laplant Road
I spent an autumn weekend in the sun
picking songs
righting wrongs.
Thinking back to days Lloyd shared with Norman Blake
Staying awake
picking by the lake.
(chorus)
And the winters send that old sun down too soon
and the dreamers wake in darkness by the moon
when a day goes by it's only afternoon
and the spirit to play
it moves you more.
We're on our way
on an autumn day
holiday
to Grand Rapids, Minnesota in the cold
and there's music in the heart of Laplant Road.
We're on our way
on an autumn day
holiday
to Grand Rapids, Minnesota in the cold
and there's music in the heart of Laplant Road.
Lloyd told me he liked to build guitars
it wasn't hard
he worked for hours
and his two young sons could build those pickers too
and the grass was blue
and they filled his shoes.
(chorus)
Lloyd pulled out a beater but a dream
a '33 D-18
he dusted off the top for St. Anne's Reel
the dessert deal with the home-made meal.
(chorus)
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Feed The Chicken Hoedown
01:50
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He Was Ugly
04:24
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He Was Ugly
She's got a new life
since she's been under the knife
she won't tell nobody why she's been out of sight
but that she's had a wonderful life
he thought she wasn't good looking
he spent his time chasing blondes
he only loved her for her cooking
she only loved him for his savings bonds
she only loved him for his savings bonds
(Chorus)
he was ugly from a distance
he was ugly as the day
that she bought beauty product pollutants
because of unkind words he did say
and she went to see the surgeon
and bought herself some dignity
all for the perversion of his blindness to inner beauty
his blindness to inner beauty
She went out after healing
and she found the men were pigs
her heart had lost all feeling
and soon she returned to her digs
to find ugliness watching his TV
startled by her face and her breasts
the tables had turned
now she had power to burn
but she couldn't have cared any less
she couldn't have cared any less
(Chorus)
She was prepared to love him forever
but he couldn't believe her rack
and he swiveled around in his Lazy Boy chair
and he had a had himself a heart attack
she cashed his Government bonds
and moved to Upstate New York
she hasn't thought back to her life from the shack
she's popped far too many corks
she's popped far too many corks
(Chorus)
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11. |
Finding Freedom
03:22
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Finding Freedom
In the fields of black where the good boys climb
making their meat for the man on time
everyday a new stranger
born in the wild
only to grow
a new society child
working to find a home and a dream
spent the 9 to 5 turning this little gold digger mean
looking for a way away from the fools
who make up the games
and break down the rules.
(chorus)
Oh we're finding freedom in the free world
we know it's free
it ain't the world we paid for x2
When the good times roll and the good boys go home
looking for mamas and babies and rocks and stones
building up homes and breaking their bones
getting old and taxing the loans
look out for the corners and the back lanes
where the gold hearts shudder and leave their blood stains
and all you want is some peace for your life
dimensions you choose
minus the strife.
(chorus)
Should you just be tired and quit?
and find yourself some place to sit?
you fear who you'll be sitting with
somebody busking a 10 cent riff
who can take you on a soul trip
so far away
"thanks for the change, man
have a nice day."
In the fields of black where the good boys climb
making their meat for the man on time
everyday a new stranger
born in the wild
only to grow
a new society child.
(chorus
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12. |
Heart Instead
02:49
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Heart instead
She's beautiful as morning
when she dances she's a treat
everywhere there's laughter
in the eyes sweet Molly meets
he tells the whole world of her
and he grants her every dream
at times she asks so much from him
she makes him want to scream.
(chorus)
"Oh honey, everything is rosy
but it's all gone to your head
may love not go up to your head
but to your heart instead."
Her father thinks it's pity
her mother thinks it's a joy
her father's rich heredity for young love to enjoy
but when they're done their dinners
and the champagne's at its end
he insists to hold her diamond hands
drunkenly recommending
(chorus)
if you're ever down in trouble
and you wonder why we're wed
may love not got up to your head
but to your heart instead.
All alone young Molly goes shopping all day long
he gives her all his money and he hasn't had a job
he says something is missing and he isn't satisfied
his mind is in the gutter because she won't provide
she says (chorus)
if you're ever down in trouble
and you wonder why we're wed
may love not got up to your head
but to your heart instead.
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Ramble On Gamble On
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Ramble On, Gamble On
I don't want to see you - gambling all our money - rolling dice and shuffling them old cards all night
I don't want to see it when you win your million dollars and watch your common sense get out of sight.
Seeing all the strangers romance you by the dozen and so and so knows so and so's dying second cousin.
So if you want to stay here and gamble all our money, honey, funny you just looking for a fight.
(Chorus) - Roll on, shuffle on, ramble on, gamble on, slow down, cool down. Would somebody please shoot out the lights?
I had a friend who won lots of money and soon she took to running around
Had a lot of friends treat her like a banker and the scandals just sent her out of town
Police tried to arrest her for allowing miners access and then the calling came the next April for the taxes
She spent more in one month than she did in her lifetime and even now I don't see her because she's gone.
Chorus. x 2
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