A Collection (2000-2012)

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2012

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Draft Daughter's Blues a.k.a. Ootischenia

(© Ford/Parton/Klein)

In spite of everything around me
I hit the floor, and my feet kept moving
I looked forwards and never backwards
I was out the door like a rollin soldier
Impossible to keep a straight line
Too young to keep these bitter hearts
And all around me somebody's singin’
Get back get back
Long hair comin down her shoulders
She is tired, and feeling so much older
So tear the pages from the family bible
It came down upon the women for survival (x2)
I wasn't meanin’ nothing at all
You stop me if I get it wrong
I think I'm hearing somebody saying
I'm gonna spank you till you can't sit down
Bust apart ah we lose each other
The constellation of my sisters and brothers
Spreading out into the darkness
Goodbye to you in the sadness of this
Impossible to keep a straight line
Too young to keep these bitter hearts
And all around me somebody singin
Get back get back
In My Time of Dying

(Traditional arr. © Ford)

Well in my time of dying
I don't want nobody to moan
All i want my friends to do
Come and fold my dying arms

Well, well, well so i can die easy
Jesus gonna make up my dying bed

Won't you meet me Jesus, meet me
Won't you meet me in the middle of the air
And if these wings should fail me lord
Won't you meet me with another pair

Well, well, won't you meet me Jesus
Jesus gonna make up my dying bed

I'm going on down to the river
Stick my sword up in the sand
Gonna shout my troubles over lord
I done made it to the promised land

Well, well, well i done crossed over
Jesus gonna make up my dying bed

Ever since i've been acquainted with jesus
We haven't been a minute apart
He placed the receiver in my ear
Threw religion in my heart

Well, well, well i can ring up my Jesus
Jesus gonna make up my dying bed
The Littlest Birds
Only in the Past

(© Ford/Parton)

Run away to the seashore
It doesn't matter anymore
It doesn't matter anymore
Words dry up and fly away
With the passing of the days
Eventually you just let the stone fall

I dreamed that i saw you you were down at the corner store
You were looking thru magazines and you flew out the door
I was trying to wave to you but you wouldn't wave back
Now you know i understand you're with me only in the past

My palms are not open they're closed they're closed

Colours streak the sky
We laugh and we cry
And we dance in the cool grass
With the fireflies
We dance in the cool grass
Sunset birds
Sweet sweet music
Swallow our words
You set sail and you left this town
Run away run away you're so far from me now
So far from me now

Run away to the seashore it doesn't matter anymore it
Doesn't matter anymore

I dreamed that i saw you you were down at the corner store....
Little Black Bear
Light Enough to Travel

(© Geoff Berner)
www.geoffberner.com

Wound up drunk again on Robson Street
Strange cuz we always agreed
At the start of every evening
That's the last place I wanna be

Coffee drinkers dressed in black with no sugar
They don't give me no respect
They say 'look here comes another one'
And i don't know what they mean yet

Chorus

And i say
Keep it light enough to travel...
Don't let it all unravel...

Promise me we won't go into the nightclub
I feel so fucked up when I'm in there
Can't tell the bouncers from the customers
And i don't know which ones i prefer

Promise me we won't go into the nightclub
I really think that it's obscene
What kind of people go to meet people
Where they can't be heard or seen

Chorus

Broke the windows at the logging company
Just to get a little release
Had to throw down my accordion
To get away from the police

And I say...
Dogsong (a.k.a. Sleep Dog Lullaby)

(© Parton)

All the dogs are haunted
And the snow melts on the grass
You were what i wanted
But the fever could not last

In the day i am dreaming
In the night i am cold
While the stars are up there singing
All the dogs are growing old

No regrets, they're out the window
Frozen on the silver pane
Gone like winter let the wind blow
Let the dogs howl at the rain

In the day i am dreaming
In the night i am cold
While the stars are up there singing
All the dogs are growing old

Oh the cats are in the alley
And the rats are on the wire
Time is breathless as a blossom
And it's bursting with desire
And the dogs they wander freely
Through the streets of long gone dreams
Drift like ghosts down the backroads
All the way to new orleans

In the day i am dreaming
In the night i am cold
While the stars are up there singing
All the dogs are growing old
The Junkie Song

(© Ford)

Took a walk in my neighborhood
It was two in the morning
By the skytrain station

The streets were full of junkies and homeless
And they all wanted something
They all wanted something

And what am I supposed to do?
There are too many of you
Too many of you

Give some change, look you in the eye
Say that I too am human, I could easily be you
Easily be you

Don.t we all hover between apathy and compassion
Fill up all our days with so much distraction
Makes it easier to see what we don't want to

But we all live here
We all live here
We all live here don't we?
Rain and Snow

(Traditional)

Well I married me a wife
She gave me trouble all my life
She ran me out in the cold rain and snow
Rain and snow, rain and snow
She ran me out in the cold rain and snow

She came a runnin on down the stairs
Combin' back her long yellow hair
And her cheeks were as red as a rose
As a rose, as a rose
And her cheeks were as red as a rose

Well I ain't got no use
For your red apple juice
And I'm not gonna be treated this a way
This a way this a way
And I'm not gonna be treated this way

I see you sitting in the shade
Counting every dime I've made
I'm so broke and I'm hungry too
Hungry too, hungry too
I'm so broke and I'm hungry too
I'm so broke and I'm hungry too

(repeat first verse)
Song for R

(© Parton)

You see people coming from all sides
With their broken hearts and hollow eyes
And you try to love but it's easier to hate
When the seed that was planted was watered too late
Oooh oh child
Oooh oh child
Your roots stretch down to grow up wild
Roots stretch down to grow up wild

It was late last night when the doorbell rang
My brother in some trouble
He stood shaking on the doorstep in the rain
With a freight train pounding in his veins
And I took him in and cleaned him up
Gave him some water and I put him to bed
Then I cried for the sadness of his life
And his lonely struggle with addiction
Friends say oh what a shame
Mum says no one but himself to blame
But I don't want to play that game
'Cos I know the truth is not so plain
Call it a hard life or a lack of love
Call it passed down from his father
Call it lack of faith in god above
There are no easy answers
He is just a child
He is just a child
Arms stretched out for love
Arms stretched out for love
Arms stretched out for love
Ship Out on the Sea

(© Ford)

I'm a ship, I'm a ship, I'm a ship
Out on the sea
None of my loves
Floating wild come back to me
So I write you a letter, I'll write you a letter
With this here pen
Don't make me wait, don't make me wait
Cos I'm your friend

I'm in love with the garden
That is down the street
And the earth is a warm thing under my feet
And the earth is a warm thing under my feet

Oh long streams of light
Lift me, from this dirty town
Cuz I'm losing stain, soak me yeah with rain, rain, rain, rain

I'm a ship, I'm a ship, I'm a ship
Out on the sea
And all these clouds flying by so fast
Well they confuse me
And the long leaves in the tall trees
Pale in the sunshine
And I was twistin' and turnin'
In the cool sheets past bed time

Plant me in the garden
Don't you let me roam
Cuz love is a feeling like a warm dark stone
Plant me in the garden
Don't you let me roam
Cuz love is a feeling like a warm dark stone
Love is a feeling like a warm dark stone
Love is a feeling like a warm dark stone
Plant me in the garden
Don't you let me roam
Cuz love is a feeling like a warm dark stone
Love is a feeling like a warm dark stone
Love is a feeling like a warm dark stone
Gospel Song