EMMYLOU HARRIS & LINDA RONSTADT
WESTERN WALL - THE TUCSON SESSIONS
(Elektra 62408)
Augus 24/1999
Produced by Glyn Johns
Emmylou Harris - vocal/guitar
Linda Ronstadt - vocal
Paul Kennerley - guitar/vocals
Ethan Johns - guitar/dulcimer/synthesizer/percussion/drums/mandocello/optigan
Andy Fairweather-Low - guitar/bass
Bernie Leadon - guitar/steel/bass
Michel Pepin - bass/cymbals
Greg Leisz - guitar/mandolin/steel/vocals
Neil Young - harmonica/vocals
Wix - accordion
Anna McGarrigle, Helen Watson, Kate McGarrigle - vocals
1.
LOVING THE HIGHWAY MAN
(Andy Prieboy)
« © '98 Before The War Music, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
The wind is a warning these fields turn to sand
My family will not answer me now
Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man
Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man
Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man
Don't say where this ring came from from whose shaking hands
Don't say who lies bleeding for me
Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man
Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man
Loving the highway man
There's a hole in the ceiling there's no pleasure in my gain
My heart is in prison
Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man
Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man
Loving the highway man
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2.
RAISE THE DEAD
(Emmylou Harris)
« © '98 Almo Music, ASCAP / Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP »
Hank Williams died when I was five
He sang I'll never get out of this world alive
Now it's been a long time since I was that kid
And I've seen a lot more than Hank ever did
I've done the down and out in every dark end dive
But I'll never get out of your love alive
Sam Cook met the woman at the well
She told him that his song was something he could never sell
And I think he knew a change was gonna come
Still he lived too fast and he died too young
Well dyin' young I have survived but I'll never get out of your love alive
I got washed in the blood of Bill Monroe
When he sang about the the blues in the body and soul
He believed in a God that could raise the dead
Still it's a mighty dark night to travel he said
I've seen a mighty dark night and I made that drive
But I'll never get out of your love alive
[ guitar ]
Robert Johnson had a hellhound on his trail
Drove him to the coffin like a hammer and a nail
It takes a powerful man to carry that load
When your tryin' to beat the devil to the old crossroads
I wrestled the devil lived to testify but I'll never get out of your love alive
I'll never get out of your love alive
I'll never get out of your love alive I'll never get out of your love alive
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3.
FOR A DANCER
(Jackson Browne)
« © '98 Swallow Turn Music, ASCAP »
Keep a fire burnin' in your eyes pay attention to the open skies
You never know what will he comin' down
I don t remember losing track of you
You were always dancin' in and out of view
I must have thought you would always be around
Always keeping things real by playin' the clown now you're nowhere to be found
I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
But I can't sing I can't help listening
I can't help feeling stupid standing around crying is the easier down
Cause I know that you would rather we'd be dancing
Dancing our sorrow away no matter what fate throws in your way
Just do the steps that you've been shown by everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone
[ guitar ]
Keep a fire for the human race let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will he coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near just as easy it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around go on and I make a joyful sound
Into a dancer you have grown from a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive but you'll never know
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4.
WESTERN WALL
(Rosanne Cash)
« © '98 Chelcait Music, BMI »
I stand here by the western wall
Maybe a little of that wall stands inside of us all
I shove my prayers in the cracks I've got nothing to lose no one to answer back
All these years I've brought up for review
Wasn't taught this but I learned something new
And to answer the distance call at the western wall
I've got a heart full of fear and I offer it on this alter of tears
Red dust settles deep in my skin I don't know where it start and where I begin
It's a crumbling pile of broken stones it ain't much but it might be home
If I ever loved a place at all it's the western wall
I don't know if God was ever a man but if she was I think I understand
Why he found a place to break his fall near the western wall
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5.
1917
(David Olney)
« © '98 Bug Music, BMI / David Olney Music, BMI »
The strange young man who comes to me a soldier on a three day spree
He needs one night's cheap ecstasy and a woman's arms to hide him
He greets me with a courtly bow and hides his pain by acting proud
He drinks too much and he laughs too loud how can I deny him
Let us dance beneath the moon I'll sing to you Claire de Lune
The morning always comes too soon but tonight the war is over
He speaks to me in schoolboy French of a soldier's life inside a trench
Of the look of death and the ghastly stench I do my best to please him
He puts two roses in a vase two roses sadly out of place
Like the gallant smile on his haggard face playfully I tease him
Hold me neath the Paris skies let's not talk of how or why
Tomorrow's soon enough to die but tonight the war is over
We make love too hard too fast he falls asleep his face a mask
He wakes with the shakes and he drinks from his flask I put my arms around him
They die in the trenches and they die in the air
In Belguim and France the dead are everywhere
They die so fast there's no time to prepare a decent grave to surround them
Old world glory old world fame the old world's gone gone up in flames
Nothing will ever be the same and nothing lasts forever
Oh I'd pray for him but I've forgotten how
And there's nothing nothing that can save him now
There's always another with the same funny bow and who am I to deny them
Lux aeterna Luce-at e-is domine cum sanctic tu-is in aeternum
Qui-a pius es requiem aeternaum dona e-is Domine
Qui-a pius es requiem aeternaum dona e-is Domine
Qui-a pius es et lux perpetua luce-at- e-is Cum sancris tu-is in
Aeternum qui-api-us es tonight the war is over
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6.
HE WAS MINE
(Paul Kennerley)
« © '98 Irving Music, BMI »
You asked me if I've met your baby I have to say
It's been some time now but it seems like yesterday
He was mine for awhile we had good times we went in style
But now he's yours treat him kind yes I remember well when he was mine
[ steel ]
You say he means the world to you yes I can tell
You'll make each other happy I wish you well
He was mine for awhile...
Yes I remember well when he was mine
He was mine he was mine he was mine he was mine
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7.
SWEET SPOT
(Emmylou Harris - Jill Cunniff)
« © '98 Almo Music, ASCAP / Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP /
April Music, ASCAP / Grand Royal Music, ASCAP / Luscious Jackson Music, ASCAP »
Baby when you're down I'll be around I'll be around
Baby when you're lost I'll be your found I'll be your found
When the night is long I'll be the crack of dawn
Baby when you take a shot I'll be your sweet spot I'll be your sweet spot
Baby when you need to float I'll be your lifeboat I'll be your lifeboat
When you want to play along I'll be your Mah Jong I'll be your Mah Jong
When you've done your best I'll be your day of rest
Baby when you take a shot I'll be you sweet spot
I'll be you sweet spot I'll be you sweet spot
I'll be you sweet spot I'll be you sweet spot
Baby when your falling off your feet out on a road that's rough and steep
And you're looking for a state of grace I'll be your leap of faith
Baby when your growing old I'll be your solid gold I'll be your solid gold
When your ship don't come in I'll be your thick and thin I'll be your thick and thin
When your love is blind I'll be your walk the line
When you've given all you've got I'll be your sweet spot
I'll be you sweet spot I'll be you sweet spot
I'll be you sweet spot I'll be you sweet spot
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8.
SISTERS OF MERCY
(Leonard Cohen)
« © '69 ATV Songs, BMI »
Oh the sisters of mercy they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song
Oh I hope you run into them you who've been trav'lling so long
Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control
It begins with your family but soon it comes around to your soul
Well I've been where you're hangin' and I think I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned
Well they lay down beside me I made my confessions to them
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem
When I left they were sleeping I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights you can read their address by the moon
And you won't make me jealous if I find that they sweetened your night
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right
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9.
FALLING DOWN
(Patty Griffin)
« © '95 Almo Music, ASCAP »
Falling down I'm falling down I need to sleep come a long long way
No time for weeping no time for weeping
Quiet now I'm falling down I'm falling down
I have heard a million tales I've told a million more
Some of them must have been true
But I don't know anymore I'm falling down
Do your dance on my head heavy steps of the dead
Everything the snow surrounds falling falling falling falling
Falling I'm falling down I'm falling down
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10.
VALERIE
(Patti Scialfa)
« © '95 Rumble Doll Music, ASCAP »
To the east the factories stand like fire-breathing dragons against the sky
And from their throats a scarlet river burns itself into smoky lullabies
Over neon and fluorescent skie
Valerie can you hear those engines drone
I wanted to go to Mexico but I'm stranded here alone
And once I knew a true love it's been three years since he's gone
And if I could get that feeling back I'd give up everything I own
Sixteen days since I left Corona and I traveled to this carnival town near Alberndee
And I rode the coaster there on the fairground
Twisted backbone of a beast that never heals
And I left some skin on fortune's wheel
Valerie can you hear those engines drone...
Everything's in slow motion now in this little border town
I've come so close from so far
Just to hide behind these windows here from the world outside
I watch those cars and trucks raise trails of dust down the road as they pass by
Valerie can you hear those engines drone..
Everything I own everything I own
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11.
THIS IS TO MOTHER YOU
(Sinead O'Connor)
« © '95 WB Music, ASCAP »
This is to mother you to comfort you and get you through
Through when your nights are lonely through when your dreams are only blue
This is to mother you
This is to be with you to hold you and to kiss you too
For when you need me I will do what your own mother didn't do
Which is to mother you
All the pain that you have known all the violence in your soul
All the wrong things you have done I will take from you when I come
All mistakes made in distress all your unhappiness
I will take away with my kiss yes I will give you tenderness
For child I am so glad I've found you
Although my arms have always been around you
Sweet bird although you did not see me I saw you
And I'm here to mother you to comfort you and get you through
Through when your nights are lonely through when your dreams are only blue
This is to mother you
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12.
ALL I LEFT BEHIND
(Emmylou Harris - Anna McCarrigle - Kate McCarrigle)
« © '95 Almo Music, ASCAP / Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP / Garden Court Music, ASCAP »
All I left behind should come as no surprise
To me since I fell through the black hole of your eyes
Only little things inconsequential I could say
Of all I left behind with you along the lost highway
Silver earrings in Wichita beaded moccasins in Tonapah
But I had you so I just let them go
The flannel shirt I wore to keep me from the cold
When we drove from Boston all the way to Buffalo
The leather boots I bought so many miles ago
I took them off to follow you into the Ohio
Never did my armor feel so thin silk was all I had between me and your skin
Like waterloo I lost that too
And the gold bracelet with my fathers name inscribed
On the back by the one who loved him all her life
The way I too could have loved you
Spanish shawl I put across the broken shade
Of the lamp that lit the room that last night near Cour d'Alene
Only little things inconsequential I could say
Of all I left behind with you along the lost highway
Of all I left behind
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13.
ACROSS THE BORDER
(Bruce Springsteen)
« © '95 Bruce Springsteen Music, ASCAP »
Tonight my bag is packed tommorrow I'll walk these tracks
That will lead me across the border
Tommorrow my love and I will sleep neath auburn skies
Somewhere across the border
We'll leave behind my dear the pain and sadness we found here
And we'll drink from the Brazos muddy waters
Where the sky grows gray and wide we'll meet on the other side
There across the border
For me you'll build a house high up on a grassy hill
Somewhere across the border
Where pain and memory pain and memory have been stilled
There across the border
Sweet blossoms fill the air pastures of gold and green
Roll down into cool clear waters
And in your arms neath the open skies I'll kiss the sorrow from your eyes
There across the border
[ guitar ]
Tonight we'll sing the songs and I'll dream of you my Corazon
And tommorrow my heart will be strong
And may the saints blessing and grace carry me safely into your arms
There across the border
[ harmonica ]
For what are we without hope in our hearts
That someday we'll drink from God's blessed waters
And eat the fruit from the vine I know love and fortune will be mine
Somewhere across the border
[ harmonica - guitar ]
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