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Emmylou Harris

Wrecking Ball

(# 94 top pop album)

Elektra 61854
Sep / 1995

Produced by Daniel Lanois

Cover image of Wrecking Ball

Emmylou Harris – vocal/guitar
Daniel Lanois – guitar/mandolin/bass/vocals
Richard Bennett, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams - guitar
Tony Hall - bass/percussion
Larry Mullen, Brian Blade - drums
Malcolm Burn - piano/organ/vibes
Neil Young - harmonica/vocals
Vocals:
Anna McGarrigle, Kate McGarrigle, Daryl Johnson

1.

Where Will I Be

Daniel Lanois

© MCA Music, ASCAP

with Daniel Lanois

The streets are cracked and there's glass everywhere
And a baby stares out with motherless eyes
Under long gone beauty on fields of war
Trapped in lament to the poet's core

Oh where oh where will I be
Oh where oh when that trumpets sounds

Met an Indian boy in Ottawa
He laid me down on a bed of straw
Said don't waste your breath
Don't waste your heart
Don't blister your heels
Running in the dark

Oh where oh where will I be...

Yeah I like the heat of your body laying under me
May your wild lip get you where your going
With your inventions your intentions your laughter
Your forever yearning

Oh where oh where will I be...

I walked to the river and I walked to the rim
I walked through the teeth of the reaper's grin
I walked to you rolled up in wire
To the other side of desire

Oh where oh where will I be...

Oh where oh where oh where when that trumpet sounds
Oh where oh where oh when that trumpet sounds

Well the heart opens wide like it's never seen love
And addiction stays on tight like a glove
Oh where oh where will I be

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2.

Goodbye

Steve Earle

© Lorimar Music, ASCAP

I remember holdin' on to you
All them long and lonely nights I put you through
Somewhere in there I'm sure I made you cry
But I can't remember if we said goodbye

But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico
One place I may never go in my life again
Was I just off somewhere or just too high
But I can't remember if we said goodbye

I only miss you every now and then
Like the soft breeze blowin' up from the Caribbean
Most Novembers I break down and cry
Cause I can't remember if we said goodbye

But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico...

No I can't remember if we said goodbye
Goodbye goodbye

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3.

All My Tears

Julie Miller

© Word Music, ASCAP

When I go don't cry for me
In my fathers arms I'll be
The wounds this world left on my soul
Will all be healed and I'll be whole

Sun and moon will be replaced
With the light of Jesus' face
And I will not be ashamed
For my savior knows my name

It don't matter where you bury me
I'll be home and I'll be free
It don't matter where I lay
All my tears be washed away

Gold and silver blind the eye
Temporary riches lie
Come and eat from heaven's store
Come and drink and thirst no more

So weep not for me my friend
When my time below does end
For my life belongs to him
Who will raise the dead again

It don't matter where you bury me...

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4.

Wrecking Ball

Neil Young

© Silver Fiddle Music, ASCAP

My life's an open book you read it on the radio
We've got no where to hide we got no where to go
But' if you still decide you want to take a ride

Meet me at the Wrecking ball
Wrecking Ball I'll wear something pretty and white
And we'll go dancing tonight
Meet me at the Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball I'll wear something pretty and white
And we'll go dancing tonight

I see smoky eyes right across the bar
I've seen that look before shining from star to star
Though I can't take that change
If you've got time for one dance

The restless line of cars goes stretching down the road
But I won't telephone cause you might say hello
What is it makes me feel this way
What is it makes me want to say

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5.

Goin' Back To Harlan

Anna McGarrigle

© Garden Court Music, ASCAP

There where no cuckoos no sycamores we played about the forest floor
Underneath the silver maples the balsams and the sky
We popped the heads off dandelions assuming roles from nursery rhymes
Rested on the riverbank and grew up by and by and grew up by and by

Frail my heart apart and play me a little shady grove
Ring the bells of rhymney till they ring inside my head forever
Bounce the bow rock the gallows for the hangman's reel
And wake the devil from his dream
I'm going back to Harlan
I'm going back to Harlan
I'm going back to Harlan

And if you were Willie Moore and I was Barbara Allen
Or Fair Ellen all sad at the cabin door
A weepin' and a pinin' for love
A weepin' and a pinin' for love

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6.

Deeper Well

Daniel Landois - David Olney - Emmylou Harris

© Irving Music, BMI

The sun burned hot it burned my eyes
Burned so hot I thought I'd died
Thought I'd died and gone to hell
Lookin' for the water from a deeper well

I went to the river but the river was dry
I fell to my knees an I looked to the sky
I looked to the sky and the spring rain fell
I saw the water from a deeper well

Well lookin' for the water from a deeper well
Well lookin' for the water from a deeper well

I was ready for love I was ready for the money
Ready for the blood and ready for the honey
Ready for the winnin' ready for the bell
Lookin' for the water from a deeper well

I found some love and I found some money
Found that blood would drip from the honey
Found I had a thirst that I could not quell
Lookin' for the water from a deeper well

Well lookin' for the water from a deeper well...

Well I did it for kicks and I did it for faith
I did it for lust and I did it for hate
I did it for need and I did it for love
Addiction stayed on tight like a glove

So I ran with the moon and I ran with the night
And the three of us were a terrible sight
Nipple to the bottle to the gun to the cell
To the bottom of a hole of a deeper well

Well lookin' for the water from a deeper well...

I rocked with the cradle and I rolled with the rage
I shook those walls and I rattled that gage
I took my trouble down a dead end trail
Reachin' out a hand for a holier grail

Hey there mama did you carry that load
Did you tell your baby bout the bend in the road
Bout the rebel yell bout the one that fell
Lookin' for the water from a deeper well

Well lookin' for the water from a deeper well...

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7.

Every Grain Of Sand

Bob Dylan

© Special Rider Music, SESAC

In the time of my confession in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There's a dyin' voice within me reaching out somewhere
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair

Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake
Like Cain I now behold this chain of events that I must break
In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles and in every grain of sand

Oh the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear
Like criminals they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand

I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream in the chill of a wintry light
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face

I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn there's someone there other times it's only me
I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan
Like every sparrow falling like every grain of sand

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8.

Sweet Old World

Lucinda Williams

© Warner-Tamerlane Pub, BMI

See what you lost when you left
This world this sweet old world
See what you lost when you left
This world this sweet old world

The breath from your own lips the touch of fingertips
A sweet and tender kiss
The sound of a midnight train wearing someone's ring
Someone calling your name
Somebody so warm cradled in your arm
Didn't you think you were worth anything

See what you lost when you left...

Millions of us in love promises made good
Your own flesh and blood
Looking for some truth dancing with no shoes
The beat the rhythm the blues
The pounding of your heart's drum together with another one
Didn't you think anyone loved you

See what you lost when you left...

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9.

May This Be Love

Jim Hendrix

© Exyperience Hendrix, ASCAP

with Daniel Lanois

Waterfall nothing can go wrong
Nothing can go wrong my sweet waterfall

When I go when I go down deep
I want you here with me my sweet waterfall

I can see a rainbow calling me
Through your mystery my sweet waterfall

Waterfall for a million day
Fall with me for a million days my sweet waterfall

Waterfall nothing can go wrong
Nothing can go wrong my sweet waterfall
Nothing can go wrong my sweet waterfall

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10.

Orphan Girl

Gillian Welch

© Irving Music, BMI

I am a orphan upon God's highway
But I'll share my troubles if you go my way

I have no mother no father no sister
No brother I am an orphan girl

I have had friendships pure and golden
But the ties of kinship I have not known them

I know no mother no father no sister...

But when he calls me I will be able
To meet my family at God's table

I'll meet my mother my father my sister...

Blessed Saviour make me willing
And walk beside me until I'm with them

Be my mother my father my sister...
Be my mother my father my sister...
I am an orphan girl

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11.

Blackhawk

Daniel Landois

© MCA Music, ASCAP

Well I work the double shift in a bookstore on St Clair
While he pushed the burning ingots in Dofasco stinking air
Where the truth bites and stings I remember just what we were
As the noon bell rings for blackhawk and the white winged dove

Hold on to your aching heart I'll wipe the liquor from your lips
A small town hero never dies he fades a bit and then he slips
Down into the blast furnace in the heat of the open hearth
And at the punch clock he remembers blackhawk and the white winged dove

I remember your leather boots pointing up into the sky
We fell down to our knees over there where the grass grew high
Love hunters in the night our faces turned into the wind
Blackhawk where are you know blackhawk and the white winged dove

We were Blackhawk where are you know
We were Blackhawk where are you know

Do you still have the ring I gave you on the banks of Lake Bear
Where I felt certain that I knew you my cool and distant debonair
Now we drink at Liberty Station another cup of muscatel
Wrapped in the strong arms of the Union raisin' kids from raisin' hell

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12.

Waltz Across Texas Tonight

Rodney Crowell - Emmylou Harris

© Sorghum Music, ASCAP

The wind can blow cold it moans and it cries
When it carries the sound of a thousand goodbyes
But if you listen tonight on that high lonely plain
You'll just hear my voice as it calls out your name
You'll just hear my voice as it calls out your name

You've been on a road that just don't seem to end
Where that broken old heart of yours won't ever mend
You've crossed over bridges and bridges they burn
So many rivers and so much to learn
So many bridges and so much to learn

But the moon is so full the stars are so bright
And my hand is steady my touch is light
Look in my eyes hold on real tight
And I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight

We both have known hard luck and love that's gone wrong
When the ghosts take the shadows and the night takes too long
We folded our cards when the hand wasn't strong
But that wheel will keep spinning long after we're gone
Yeah that wheel will keep spinning long after we're gone

And the moon is so full the stars are so bright
And my hand is steady my touch is light
Look in my eyes hold on real tight and I'll
Waltz you my darling across Texas tonight

I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
Look in my eyes hold on real tight
And I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight

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