1.

The Road

Emmylou Harris

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

I can still remember every song you played
Long ago when we were younger and we rocked the night away
How could I see a future then where you would not grow old
Such fire in our belly such a hunger in souls

I guess I've grown to love you in those words so often tired
Seen that we were traveling under some old lucky sign
I know I didn't say it then and no one was to blame
But the road we shared together once will never be the same

Hey all along the way
Won't be coming round again
Hey was a song I played
And on the wings of a song I'll fly away

I wondered in the wilderness for a while I was so lost
To everything there is a season and every blessing has it's cost
So I took what you left to me and put it to some use
When looking for an answer with those three chords and the truth

I come down from the mountain I come walking in your shoes
I was taken for a gambler when I had no more to loose

For he put me on that path and how could I refuse
And I would spend my whole life out here working on the blues

Hey ay hey hey ay hey heey

So I carried on you can't be haunted by the past
People come people go and nothing ever lasts
But I still think about you wonder where you are
Can you see me from some place up there among the stars

But down here under heaven there never was a chart
To guide our way across this crooked highway of the part
And if it's only all about the journey in the end
On that road I'm glad I came to know my old friend

Hey all along the way...

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2.

Home Sweet Home

Emmylou Harris

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

I live out here in the wind and the pouring rain
Somewhere between 14th Avenue and Main
In the summer heat winter's freezing snow
You see I got nowhere else to go

Got no home sweet home
Into this world somewhere by the road
And it's a long hard road we walk
On our way to home sweet home

People pass by they don't see me here
And if they do they wish I would disappear
I guess they know way down deep in their bones
It could be them out there looking for a home

For a home sweet home...

Ought to have a place to lay my head
A crumb or two for my daily bread
Perhaps someday a kind soul will come upon
Help me find my way back where I belong

Back to a home sweet home...

Sweet home oh that street I can call it home
And it's a long hard road we walk
All the way to home sweet home

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3.

My Name Is Emmett Till

Emmylou Harris

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

I was born a black boy my name is Emmett Till
I walked this earth for fourteen years then one night I was killed
For speaking to a woman whose skin was as white as dough
That's a sin in Mississippi but how was I to know

I'd come down from Chicago to visit with my kin
Up there I was a cheeky kid I guess I always been
But the harm they put upon me was too hard for what I done
For I was just a black boy I never hurt no one

They took me from my uncle's house Mose Wright was his name
He'd later stand and without hesitation point the blame
At the ones who beat and cut me and shot me with a gun
Then threw me in the river like I was trash when they were done

I was sent back to my mother at least what was left of me
She kept my casket open for the whole wide world to see
The awful desecration and the evidence of hate
You could not recognize me the mutilation was so great

There came a cry for justice then to be finally fulfilled
All because of me a black boy my name is Emmett Till

But I'd have rather lived till I was too old to die young
Not miss all I left behind all that might have come
The summer clouds above my head the grass beneath my feet
The warmth of a good woman her kisses soft and sweet

Perhaps to be a father with a black boy of my own
And watch him grow into a kinder world than I had known
Where no child would be murdered for the color of his skin
And love would be the only thing inside the hearts of men

They say the horror of that night is still haunting heaven still
Where I am one more black boy my name is Emmett Till

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4.

Goodnight Old World

Emmylou Harris - Will Jennings

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

Sometimes I feel like I'm drownin' in teardrops
My eyes are so tired of the trouble I've seen

Then you fell from the heavens right into this sad place
Remembering God for awhile in your dreams
And you look to me now so I greet the new day
With the eyes of a child and the wonder you bring

So goodnight old world we'll see you tomorrow
We rise with the sun and fall with the sparrow
But here is this child to soften the sorrow
Goodnight old world old world goodnight

You fell from the heavens right into this sad place...
So goodnight old world see you tomorrow...
Goodnight old world old world goodnight

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5.

New Orleans

Emmylou Harris - Will Jennings

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

My Lord how the rains came down the waters made a mighty sound
When the levees broke that day washin' all those souls away
The whole world stood to watch us drown but we took it to a higher ground

It takes more than a hurricane to empty out the Pontchartrain
Long ago we broke the chains in New Orleans New Orleans
When Brother Bill and Sister Nellare singing like a ringing bell
Then you'll know all is well in New Orleans New Orleans

Bring it all fire and flood fill the rivers up with mud
To cut and run ain't in our blood we are New Orleans

So baby let the life roll on the blues were made to make us strong
We're walkin' in a brighter day nothin' can get in our way
The whole world stood to watch us drown but we took it to a higher ground

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6.

Big Black Dog

Emmylou Harris

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

A big black dog a little too much gray around the muzzle
A big black dog why she ended up at the pound is a puzzle
A big black dog did she run away
Because somebody didn't treat her right
Did they leave her out in the cold night after lonely night
A big black dog

A big black dog I found her one day down there at the metro
A big black dog waitin' in a cage in line for the death row
Big black dog
Did somebody her put here out on the road and did just not care
Did they think an old dog was too much trouble for them to bear
A big black dog

Her name is Bella Bella you're not brown you're not yella
Bella Bella my big black dog

Big black dogs they're everywhere
Lookin' for a home they're hungry and scared
All they need is food and attention
They'll give you back love
Sometimes redemption I swear
You could find it there
In a big black dog

A big black dog she may be a little rough around the edges
A big black dog when you throw a ball she'll always go and fetch it
This big black dog
With a brand new leash and a brand new collar
It's a brand new game I love to see the way she runs to me when I holler
Out her name my big black dog

Her name is Bella Bella...
My big black dog

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7.

Lonely Girl

Emmylou Harris

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

It seems to me lately
The days are growing shorter the years are going faster
And time is flying by I wake up in the morning
And before I even notice
The sun is going down and I'm left to wonder why

I'm a lonely girl in a lonely world
I never thought my life would be like this
To have no one to hold my hand
And feel once more a sweet caress

I'd give it my best effort
Love is always worth it but even if I try
I might still end up alone
It may not be in me to take what love could give me
Some of us are better off to make it on our own

As a lonely girl in a lonely world
And though my life has been so blessed
I have no one to hold my hand
And feel once more a sweet caress

I've had my share of lovers and cared for many others
I always thought there'd be another one to come along
But if love can't find me again I'll put it all behind me then
I'll just go and learn to sing another sad love song

About a lonely girl in a lonely world
She never dreamed her life would be like this
To have no one to hold her hand
And feel once more a sweet caress

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8.

Hard Bargain

Ron Sexsmith

© Ronboy Rhymes, ASCAP

I'm a bit run down, but I'm okay
Just feel like callin' it a day
But you send me back to the start
You drive a hard bargain

Each time I'm headin' for nowhere
Doomed and determined to go there
It seems I never get far
You drive a hard bargain you drive a hard bargain

How's a girl supposed to fail
With someone like you around them
I've tried and tried to no avail
You just can't seem to let me down
You drive a hard bargain you drive a hard bargain

How's a girl supposed to fail...
You drive a hard bargain

So I'll keep on playin' that old song
Cause for all I know it's where I belong
When the world is breaking my heart
You drive a hard bargain

You send me back to the start
You drive a hard bargain
You drive a hard bargain

I'm a bit run down, but I'm okay

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9.

Six White Cadillacs

Emmylou Harris - Will Jennings

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

Workin' hard all my life
Always tried to get it right
Every day and every night
Hey hey hey carry me home

Singin' in a honky tonk
People dancin' getting drunk
Never knowin' what I want
Hey hey hey carry me home

I just want a little
Give me just a little
Just a little peace of mind
Can't somebody tell me

Please somebody tell me
Hoe long does this road unwind

Six white Cadillacs
Crossin' on the railroad track
Angels in the front and back
Hy hey hey carry me home

Way over yonder
We won't have to wander anymore

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10.

Ship On His Arm

Emmylou Harris

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

Where are you now
She writes where are you now my love
Do you have food to eat shoes for your tired feet
Am I the one you're dreaming of
Do you know how I miss you how I long to kiss you
Pray for the day you will come back to me my darling one

He thinks about her
All through the long watches of night
The bullets are flying young men are dying
He prays for the first crack of light
And when he can finally sleep into his dream she'll sweep
On the sweet web she has spun and for a while they are one

When she kisses the ship on his arm
All of his sorrows unravel
He knows he will come to no harm
Over all of the miles he has travel
Her love is an anchor her love is forever
It's true now her love is the charm
When she kisses the ship on his arm

Blessed are they these fearless young lovers
Their lives have just barely begun
Blessed is the day they return to each other
After all of the battles are done
And finally they are one

When she kisses the ship on his arm...

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11.

Darlin' Kate

Emmylou Harris

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

So it's finally come you have left this world
But we'll miss our Kate our darling girl
We held your hand kissed your lovely brow
And bid farewell you're sailing now

Free from the pain you laid that burden down
But you're strong and giving heart will surely be your crown
As you slip the surly bonds of earth and sail away
Perhaps we will meet again somehow some day
Until then there's nothing we can do but wait
To see once more our darling Kate

All those nights we sang and talked till the sun come up
You fed our souls you filled our cup
With your perfect words and oh that voice
We fell in love we had no choice

And I can't say for sure where you have gone
But in that place I'm bettin' there's a better song
For we've all known down here the taste of joy and strife
You were the sweetest note in the chord of life

Now you've slipped the surly bonds of earth and sailed away
Perhaps we will meet again somehow some day
But if there was one name I could consecrate
It would be yours it would be Kate

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12.

Nobody

Emmylou Harris

© Poodle Bone Music, ASCAP

Ridin' on her bicycle to school
A little girl out breakin' all the rules
She don't care about the birds and the bees
She's too busy skinnin' both her knees
With the arms of a loving childhood wrapped around her
All the wonders of the world surround her
And with the angels up above her soul to keep
In her bed down here below she falls asleep

She don't need nobody she don't need nobody
She don't need nobody now

All grown up and livin' on her own
She goes to work and then comes home alone
But she believes someday her prince will come
There's a lot of life to go at twenty one
With nothing but her faith in love to guide her
She'll follow the young heart that beats inside her
Walk right through that door and bet it all
Confidant she can take the fall

She's ready for somebody she's ready for somebody...

As the years go by the woman's not so sure
She feels an ache inside that seems to have no cure
How did life get so long does no one ever stay
Was the dream of one true love just lost along the way
But she believes she has so much to give
Is there any other reason why we live

She stills want somebody she stills want somebody...

Now that little girl is growing old
All of her sad stories have been told
But there are no regrets, she'll place no blame
She knows for everyone it is the same
Even when the well runs dry and the bread's unleavened
And she wonders if there really is a heaven
She finds her way back to that little girl
And wraps her empty arms around the world

She don't need nobody she don't need nobody...

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13.

Cross Yourself

Jay Joyce

© ATV Songs, BMI

I can see all the way to Mercury from Mission Bay
I can feel your frequency just one more thing
Cross yourself cross yourself come to me

And no matter how hard you try
You can no longer be
Standing there where so many die
Anticipating

Over the new clear watercolor
Over the rocks and glass
And everything that's meant to be
Come to me
Cross yourself come to me

And you say all your life
You've been waiting for this time
Open wide spread your wings
Just one more thing
Cross yourself cross yourself
Come to me

Don't listen to what they say
There's no day like today
Ain't no secret cloud in the way
It will be so easy

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