JIMMIE DALE GILMORE
ONE ENDLESS NIGHT
(Rounder 3173)
February 29/2000 Produced by Buddy Miller & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Buddy Miller, Rob Gjersoe - guitar
Darrell James Scott - guitar/steel/dobro/mandolin
Byron House - bass
Don Heffington - drums
Tammy Rogers - fiddle
Phil Madeira - organ
Steve Hindalong - percussion
Jim Hoke - autoharp
Vocals:
Emmylou Harris, Lucy Kaplansky, Jim Lauderdale, Julie Miller, Richard Shindell, Dar & Victoria Williams
1.
ONE ENDLESS NIGHT
(David Hammond - Jimmie D. Gilmore)
« © '99 Hydras Teeth Music, BMI / Irving Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI »
One endless night so very long ago
Close as the moment I held someone
To be the last to be the only one
For all and everything one endless night
When you awoke and told me of your dream
The waves that rolled across the starry skies
And broke upon your heart and disappeared
And promised everything one endless night
I see you now and I suppose
Everything's changed and rearranged but no one knows
The why or how or if it might
Be what depends on how it ends one endless night
[ guitar - mandolin ]
Your gift to me is nothing I can hold
The silence fades away to find the song
This too shall pass we two and everything
And this your gift to me one endless night
This is your gift to me one endless night
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2.
BANKS OF THE GUADALUPE
(Butch Hancock)
« © '99 Two Roads Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI »
Down by the banks of the Guadalupe
On a summer's evening and a haloed moon
Wide-eyed as nightowls naked as a dream
We washed our love in the rippling waters of a rambling stream
We slept like time itself under diamond skies
Far from the bright lights and the city's lies
Our love arose like a morning dream
And it was washed in the rippling waters of a rambling stream
Well the mountain dreams of a blanket of snow
And the wild wind dreams of directions it might blow
But the river's dream is a dream of love
And a dream of sweet reflections from above
[ steel ]
Down by the banks of the river of change
We watched the river running from the wishes of the mountain range
And the stars and the wildwood played the season's theme
And it was washed in the rippling waters of a rambling stream
Down by the banks of the Guadalupe...
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3.
NO LONESOME TUNE
(Townes VanZandt)
« © '99 Bughouse, ASCAP / Katire Bell Music, ASCAP / Will VanZandt Publishing, ASCAP »
Well I ain't gonna sing no lonesome tune oh babe I'm coming soon
I cannot believe I stayed so long away
But a man must look around and you're the sweetest thing I've found
Your lost high roller's rolling home to stay
Well my daddy said to me son it's hard as you will see
To find someone upon whom to rely
And in the kitchen mama sneezed and he grinned big as you please
Said bless you and a tear come to his eye
Well I did decide that very day that I would like to live that way
And now I know I've just been wasting time
It's with you that I should be and if you feel the same bout me
Well I'm headed home along the straightest line
[ dobro - fiddle - guitar ]
I ain't gonna sing no lonesome tune...
Yeah your lost high roller's rolling home to stay
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4.
GOODBYE OLD MISSOULA
(Willis A. Ramsey)
« © '99 Wishbone Music, ASCAP »
Seaching for the sunlight on this winter's day
Here in old Missoula they locked the sun away
Come tomorow morning I'll head for the Bozeman round
And it's goodbye to old Missoula sleepy town
I met a girl named Rosie sweet as she could be
But I guess that Rosie didn't have eyes for me
Time it waits for no one Lord why did I hesitate
And it's goodbye to old Missoula a day too late
Clouds that hang on the mountain they make me lonesome inside
And these four walls that surround me they leave me no place to hide
The show in this town is over or maybe it never began
And it's goodbye to old Missoula I've done all I can
[ fiddle ]
Goodbye Rosie you'll never know and time says my love will pass
But if I can remember your smiling face that's all of time that I ask
The show in this town is over or maybe it never began
And it's goodbye to old Missoula I've done all I can
And it's goodbye to old Missoula
Goodbye to old Missoula goodbye to old Missoula sleepy town
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5.
GEORGIA ROSE
(Walter Hyatt)
« © '99 Lespedeza Music, BMI »
Dusty roads and winter time tonight I'm thinking of the town
And the one I left behind to do this rambling round
Tonight I'm drinking while I'm thinking until the beer joints close
And I'm thinking of someone I called my Georgia Rose
It's on dusty streets we walked and talked of things to be
And she never laughed or mocked my wanting to be free
Tonight I'm free to walk these streets while the wind cuts through my clothes
And I'm free to dream forever about my Georgia Rose
So come to my dreams sweet as a flower bloomin' among the pines
Georgia Rose still my desire once you could have been mine
[ guitar ]
Sometimes a man makes certain choices and they lead his heart somewhere
Sometimes he follows certain voices and he don't seem to care
Oh how I love that little town down on the Eastern coast
And I love that pretty girl I called my Georgia Rose
So come to my dreams sweet as a flower...
Georgia Rose still my desire once you could have been mine
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6.
YOUR LOVE IS MY REST
(John Hiatt)
« © '95 Careers Music, BMI »
These are the words that cry out of me in the night
Like a buffalo herd from a shotgun blast scattered in flight
I got a one track mind going down a one train line
Living on dreams half the time going west
I gotta pick up speed just to get what I need
The end of the line guaranteed your love is my rest
The coal catches fire I'm down the wire in a flash
That big old smoke stack is belching out black smoke and ash
So sad to think of hurtin' the one you love
But surely that's what leaving does you'd know best
I gotta pick up speed just to get what I need
The end of the line guaranteed your love is my rest
Your love is my rest
[ guitar ]
I stand in the land of Custer's last stand and I grin
So this is where old yellow hair's ghost dance begins
I got the blood on my hands can't even live where I stand
I'm just a traveling man cursed or blessed
I gotta pick up speed just to get what I need
The end of the line guaranteed your love is my rest
I gotta pick up speed just to get what I need
The end of the line guaranteed your love is my rest
Your love is my rest your love is my rest
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7.
BLUE SHADOWS
(Jimmie D. Gilmore - Hal Ketchum)
« © '99 Irving Music, BMI / Jade EG Music, BMI /
Mike Curb Music, BMI / Hal Ketchum Music, BMI »
Blue shadows devil moon over head
Blue shadows on a half-empty bed
Broken promises loving words left unsaid
I remember them all as blue shadows fall
Is twilight more lonely than any other time
It sure feels that way to me tonight
The sound of your laughter the joy of your smile
The sky on the day we met
I remember them all as blue shadows fall
Blue shadows devil moon over head...
[ guitar ]
Has sunset forever been like the end of time
It sure seems that way to me tonight
The misunderstandings the flowers unsent
The echoes of every goodbye
I remember them all as blue shadows fall
Blue shadows devil moon over head...
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8.
DEFYING GRAVITY (EXECUTIONER'S SONG)
(Jesse Winchester)
« © '74 Fourth Floor Music, ASCAP / Hot Kitchen Music, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
I live on a big round ball I never do dream I may fall
And even it's one day that I do I jump off and smile back at you
I don't even know where we are they'll you we're circling a star
Where I'll take their word I don't know but I'm dizzy so it may be so
[ guitar - organ ]
I'm riding a big round ball I never do dream I may fall
And even the high must lay low so I do fall I'll be glad to go
[ guitar ]
I live on a big round ball...
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9.
RIPPLE
(Robert Hunter - Jerry Garcia)
« © '99 Ice Nine Publishing, ASCAP »
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
Would you hear my voice come through the music
Would you hold it near as it were your own
It's a hand me down the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
I don't know don't really care
Let there be songs to fill the air
Ripple in still water when there is no pebble tossed nor wind to blow
Reach out your hand if your cup be empty
If your cup is full may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men
[ fiddle ]
There is a road no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
Ripple in still water when there is no pebble tossed nor wind to blow
You who choose to lead must follow but if you fall you fall all alone
If you should stand then who's to guide you
If I knew the way I would take you home
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10.
RAMBLIN' MAN
(Butch Hancock)
« © '99 Rainlight Music, ASCAP »
Well I'm your ramblin' man and I can lift your latch
Well I could stay here mama but I got me some trains to catch
When that cold north wind stops blowing I'll still be walking the line
You ever see me laughing little lady I'm laughing just to keep from cryin'
I'm your ramblin' man and some Christmas time
Won't you hang my holy socks on a midnight line
Well that mountainside's just gonna sit there that river's gonna rush on by
But don't ask me to hang around I couldn't stay here if I tried
I'm your ramblin' man and I can go where I choose
And if you sing me a song mama make it a midnight blues
[ guitar ]
Well don't that moon look beautiful baby climbing up through the sky
Well it looks like I'm gonna chase that moon mama till the day I die
I'm your ramblin' man and there ain't no doubt
I'm gonna hang out late mama with the midnight crowd
[ ac.guitar ]
Where the silver starlight glistens on the green mossy banks of time
I'm gonna spend my long nights listenin' and looking for a star that's mine
I'm your ramblin' man and till I come home
Won't you hang my midnight mail on a rolling stone
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11.
DARCY FARROW
(Steve Gillette - Tom Campbell)
« © '67 Rumpole Dumple Music, ASCAP »
Where the walker runs down through the Carson Valley Plain
There lived a maiden Darcy Farrow was her name
The daughter of old Dundee and fair one was she
The sweetest flower that bloomed over the range
Her voice was as sweet as the sugar candy
Her touch was as soft as a bed of eider down
Her eyes shone bright like the pretty lights
That shine in the night out of Yerrington town
She was courted by a young Vandamere
And quite handsome was he as I'm to hear
He gave her silver rings and lacy things
And she promised to wed before the snows came that year
[ guitar ]
But her pony he did stumble and he did fall
Her dying cut the hearts from us one and all
Young Vandy in his pain put a bullet in his brain
And we buried them together as the snow began to fall
[ guitar ]
They sing of Darcy Farrow where the Truckee runs through
They sing of her beauty in Virginia City too
At dusky sundown to her name they drink a round
And to young Vandy whose love was true
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12.
MACK THE KNIFE
(Kurt Weill - Bertold Brecht - Marc Blitzstein)
« © '28 Weill Brecht Harms Co, ASCAP / Kurt Brecht Foundation, ASCAP »
Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear and he shows them pearly white
Just a jacknife has MacHeath dear and he keeps it out of sight
When the shark bites with his victim scarlet spreads amongst the green
But white gloves wears our MacHeath dear and the blood is never seen
Seven children and their grandpa in the fire near old Soho
Who's that creeping aound the corner doesn't speak and doesn't know
[ steel ]
Solly Silverstein has vanished like wise other rich young men
And MacHeath has all their money try and prove it if you can
Sookey Tawdry Jenny Diver Polly Peachum Lucy Brown
Oh the line forms on the right dear now that Mackie's back in town
[ guitar ]
Oh the shark has pearly teeth babe and he keeps them in his face
Just a jacknife has MacHeath babe keeps it in a different place
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