Songs Baby, Songs
Just songs and lyrics I'm into right now. |
| 1 | Leonard Cohen
The Partisan
"oh the wind, the wind is blowing" |
| 2 | 16 Horsepower
Shametown
"some through the water, some through the flood, some by the bullet, but all through his blood" |
| 3 | Townes Van Zandt
Tecumseh Valley
"In her hand where she died was a note that cried, 'fare thee well tecumseh valley" |
| 4 | Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
I'm Working on a Building
"If I were a drunkard I'd tell you what I'd do, I would quit my drinking and work on that building too" |
| 5 | Bob Dylan
If You Ever Go to Houston
"If you ever go to Houston you better walk right, keep your hands in your pocket and your gun belt tight" |
| 6 | Hank Williams
Alone and Forsaken
"the birds in the morning don't sing anymore" |
| 7 | Doc Watson
Columbus Stockade Blues
"In your heart you love another, leave me little darling I won't mind" |
| 8 | Jimmie Rodgers
T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)
"I can get more women than a passenger train can haul" |
| 9 | The Bottle Rockets
Welfare Music
"Just watch the baby dance to the welfare music" |
| 10 | Joe Henry
Flower Girl
"I was gonna be the bride of this whole godforsaken mountainside instead I'm just a flower girl dropping petals off of this empty world" |
| 11 | Johnny Cash and June Carter
When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)
"The song she kept singing would make a man's blood run cold" |
| 12 | Strawfoot
Wayfarin' Stranger
"I know dark clouds will gather over me, I know my path is rough and steep, but golden fields lay out before me" |
| 13 | Hank Snow
My Filipino Rose
"This broken heart will always wait for you dear" |
| 14 | Over the Rhine
Changes Come
"Some days I think this world is too fucked up for any first-born son" |
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