JIMMIE DALE GILMORE
BRAVER NEWER WORLD
(Elektra 61836)
May/1996
Produced by T-Bone Burnett
Stephen Bruton, T-Bone Burnett, Tony Gilkyson - guitar
Greg Leisz - steel
Jerry Scheff, Jon Brion - bass
Jim Keltner - drums
Patrick Warren - organ
Don Heffington - percussion
Joseph M. Sublet, David Woodford - sax
Phil Krawzak - sax/clarinet
Beverly Dahlke - clarinet
Darrell Leonard - trumpet/horn
Kurt Snyder, Diane Muller - french horn
Sam Phillips - vocals
1.
BRAVER NEWER WORLD
(Jimmie D. Gilmore)
« © '96 Irving Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI »
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 now that you know how to play the winning game
Laughing till 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...
[ steel - guitar ]
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...
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2.
COME FLY AWAY
(Alfred B. Strehli)
« © '96 Bee Cave Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI »
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 and 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
Till 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
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3.
BORDERLAND
(David Hammond - Jimmie D. Gilmore)
« © '96 Hydras Teeth Music, BMI / Irving Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI »
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
[ guitar ]
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 held out her hand
Then she let go with all her might and loved the borderland
So good to be home in the borderland...
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4.
HEADED FOR A FALL
(Kevin Welch - David Hammond - Jimmie D. Gilmore)
« © '96 Kevin Welch Music, BMI / Hydras Teeth Music, BMI /
Irving Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
You may be peekin' in your mailbox you may be waitin' for a call
There might be only stars to see if you're not waitin' there for me
I believe you're headed for a fall
You might be starin' 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 waitin' here when you hit bottom
I believe you're headed for a fall
[ guitar ]
We'll have days together in the sunshine
Autumn's twilight winter's darkness too
Darling 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...
[ guitar - horns ]
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5.
LONG LONG TIME
(David Hammond - Jimmie D. Gilmore)
« © '96 Hydras Teeth Music, BMI »
Well I left my home searching up 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 countin'
It's been a long long time you've been away
[ guitar ]
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 countin'
It's been a long long time I've been away
It's been a long long time I've been away
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6.
SALLY
(Alfred B. Strehli)
« © '96 Bee Cave Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI »
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
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 anybody 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...
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7.
THERE SHE GOES
(Jimmie D. Gilmore)
« © '96 Irving Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI »
There she goes she's magic do you know why she cries
You see the light 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 even in small ways there she goes it seems like always
[ guitar ]
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 even in small ways there she goes it seems like always
There she goes she's magic do you know why she cries
She sees the light of heaven in your eyes
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8.
WHERE IS LOVE NOW
(Sam Phillips)
« © '96 Jade EG Music, BMI »
If I can wait here for you without hope or knowing what to do
And 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 till I know
Cry the tears from my eyes...
Where is love now where is love now out here in the dark
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9.
BLACK SNAKE MOAN
(Blind Lemon Jefferson)
« © '96 Jade EG Music, BMI »
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
[ guitar ]
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've been a bedbug I know a chinch can't bite that hard
Yeah chinch can't bite that hard
Asked my woman for fifty cents she said Jimmie I ain't got a dime in the yard
[ guitar ]
Well ain't got no momma now...
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10.
BECAUSE OF THE WIND
(Joe Ely)
« © '78 April Music, ASCAP / Free Flow Production, ASCAP »
Do you know why the trees bend at the west Texas border
Do you know why they bend 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
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 like the breeze that blows from Corpus Christi
She is to me like the breeze that blows up from the sea
Now if she is like the breeze that blows from Corpus Christi
Then I must be like the trees cause Caroleen blows through me
[ steel ]
Do you know why the trees bend...
The trees bend because of the wind almost all the time
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11.
OUTSIDE THE LINES
(Jimmie D. Gilmore)
« © '96 Irving Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI »
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 anybody
But myself cause every single choice I ever made was mine
And now I find myself a little out of the 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'll see the signs a lovelight shines between the lines
A lovelight shines between the lines
You see the signs a lovelight shines between the lines
A lovelight shines a lovelight shines between the lines
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