Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Outside The Nashville City Limits
Composição de (Joan Baez)
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Outside the Nashville city limits, a friend and I did drive 
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On a day in early winter, I was glad to be alive 
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We went to see some friends of his, who lived upon a farm  
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Strange and gentle country folk, who wished nobody harm  
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Fresh-cut sixty acres, eight cows in the barn  
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But the thing that I remember, on that cold day in December  
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Was that my eyes they did brim over, as we talked.  


In the slowest drawl I had ever heard, the man said "Come with me,  
If y'all wanna see the prettiest place, in all of Tennessee."  
He poured us each a glass of wine, and a-walking we did go,  
Along fallen leaves and crackling ice, where a tiny brook did flow  
He knew every inch of the land, and Lord he loved it so  
But the thing that I remember, on that cold day in December  
Was that my eyes were brimming over, as we walked.  


He set me down upon a stone, beside a running spring  
He talked in a voice so soft and clear, like the waters I heard sing  
He said "We searched quite a time, for a place to call our own  
There was just me and Mary John, and now I guess we're home."  
I looked at the ground and wondered, how many years they each had roamed  
And Lord I do remember, on that day in late December  
How my eyes kept brimming over, as we talked 

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As we walked.  


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And standing there with outstretched arms, he said to me "You know,  
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I can't wait till the heavy storms, cover the ground with snow,  
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And there on the pond the watercress, is all that don't turn white, 
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When the sun is high you squint your eyes, and look at the hills so bright." 
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And nodding his head my friend said, "It seems like overnight,  
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That the leaves come out so tender, at the turning of the winter"  
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I thought the skies they would brim over, as we talked.

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