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Around the Bend
05:01
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They say what you don’t know can’t hurt you
Like ignorance is some kind of virtue
Heaven help the soul of a sharp-tongued woman
Those who speak the truth have a hard time coming
Walking the edge of the slippery slope
Change is hard don’t give up hope
Chorus
You start at the beginning
And see it to the end
It’s right around the corner
It’s right around the bend
Forget about the jackpot and what you want to spend
Ashes ashes in the end
Ain’t no use to trouble or complain
Might as well smile in the pouring rain
The only way to come back is to go
Whether your wheel turns fast or slow
Chorus
What’s it gonna take to get your backs up people?
When you gonna stop being so damn feeble
Never forget that people have the power
Short is the day and late is the hour
Who’s to say when the time is right?
Rosy fingered dawn takes back the night
Chorus
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Buffalo Jump
04:48
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Take me down to the buffalo jump
Take me down to the buffalo jump
Past the willow and the water pump
Take me down to the buffalo jump
Sometimes it seems like I can't get out of my own damn way
And how I came by these ragged hands and this gray hair I can’t say
This stuttering tongue and unsteady feet they belong to someone else
The rule of the bone has rubbed me raw and robbed me of myself
Chorus
I like to take my knitting there; I sit right by the edge
There’s no one now to chase me over, I listen to my head
Children’s stories, yarn and thimbles, seeds and crochet hooks
A cup of coffee threads and beads needles and reference books
Gravity calls me to the earth
Singing my heart for all I’m worth
Flying downhill feels like a rebirth
I know how the story ends, it’s the same way every time
The ropy tails, head over hooves, the dusty buffalo fly
The first mile traveled is the longest the last was yesterday
And we will always be just things, things on the way
Things on the way, things on the way
Chorus
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Black Roses
03:09
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I got a man, and he don’t love me
Black roses over my door
I got a man, and he just don’t love me
Black roses over my door
There’s a river, river of darkness
I can see it in his eyes
With the distance of his kisses
There’s nothing left to die
Chorus
Faded memories haunt the shadows
Of a doubt that come to rise
Vows lay broken, sharp words spoken
Two strangers come to life
Chorus
If I surrender to things we said today
Maybe tomorrow I’ll see yesterday
Chorus
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Loser
05:49
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Meryem Ana
05:12
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On a bright fall day I made my way along
The rocky path up Nightingale Mountain
And in a cool grove of ancient olive trees
Stood an old stone house and a quiet flowing fountain
There were solemn pilgrims down upon their knees
Laughing kids and nuns with rosaries
Meryem Ana, Meryem Ana, Meryem Ana; hear their prayer
I shook the dust from my feet and stepped inside the rooms
Breathed in beeswax, incense, dusty carpets
The Ave Maria always makes me weep
Lit a candle for my dead and hurried through the exit
Then I came upon a wall of a thousand rags
White bouquets of fragile tissue flags
They flutter in the breezes, they get melted in the rain
The ink bleeds away, leaving ghostly faded stains
Washed away, washed away
Meryem Ana, Meryem Ana, Meryem Ana, hear our prayer
And in my dreams I go to Mary’s House
And I write on a tissue what I wish for you
I wonder what do they know that I don’t know
Surely this thin veil of life is what is true?
Where I will go when my life nears its close?
And will I ever find that pure white rose?
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Donal Og
05:31
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The snipe spoke of you from her deep marsh
You’re a lonely bird in the wood
And you will be alone till you find me
You promised me, and you said a lie to me,
That you would meet me where the sheep are flocked;
I stood and called through the night,
No one was there but bleating lambs.
You took the East and the West from me, darling
What is before and behind
You took the moon and the sun from me darling
I fear you took my very soul, my very soul
My mother bade me not speak to you
Today tomorrow or any Sunday
Too late and I beyond belief
Too late to lock the door from the thief
Now my heart’s as black as the blackness of the sloe,
Blacker than the coal on the smith's forge;
Black as shoeprints in stark white halls;
You put that darkness in my life.
You took the East and the West from me, darling
What is before and behind
You took the moon and the sun from me darling
I fear you took my very soul my own poor soul my poor soul
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Sometimes I wish I worked in a factory
Used my hands all day long
Sometimes I wish I worked in a factory
Calm my mind with a metallic song
I know about your broken heart
Nobody knows about my broken heart
Sometimes I wish I had my own secrets
I’d hold them close to my bones
Sometimes I wish I had my own secrets
Something deep to call my own
I know about your broken heart
Nobody knows about my broken heart
You don't know how dirty your hands are until you wash them
Pearly grey water leaves a black ring around your sink
If you took the time and care to repair everything you’d ever broken
Who would care or notice when it’s all gone in a blink?
Sometimes I wish I could go out in the wide world
Who would see me, who would call
Sometimes I wish I could go out in the wide world
One more pale flower, flower on the wall
But I know about your broken heart
Nobody knows about my broken heart
My broken heart, broken heart, heart
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Paulita's Lament
04:41
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So where has my Billy gone? Poor Billy’s laid to rest
With a red, red rose upon his chest, my darling Billy boy
I am an old woman, my name is Paulita
Some call me señora, and some señorita,
For when I was young, I was bound to be wed
To a handsome young man they called Billy the Kid
My father said “’Lita, I will not allow it,
That boy he’s a bad one, there’s no doubt about it.”
But I was a young girl, and I would not hear
A word against my Billy dear
Chorus
Billy was working for the rancher John Tunstall
Out in Lincoln county, herdin up cattle,
But the ranchers in Lincoln were killing each other
And they killed the man Billy loved like a brother
Billy swore vengeance for Mr. John Tunstall
He saddled his horse and he strapped on his pistols
By the time he returned there were seven men dead
And Billy the Kid had a price on his head
Chorus
The sheriff caught Billy and they brought him for trial
The judge said, “Let’s hang him and just leave him awhile”
But Billy broke out the Lincoln town jail,
Leaving two deputies dead in his trail
He rode through the night to the house of my father
But the sheriff was waiting with a loaded revolver
When Billy walked into my room in the dark
The sheriff put a bullet in my Billy’s heart
Chorus
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Aquamarine
03:06
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Going up the Quickway in your dad’s old Newport
To the land of Goshen, to ride on a horse
Mixing up our metaphors, we’d conquer the world
You, a bright blond Viking, me, a timid girl.
We grew up, you went your way, and I went mine
You ended up along the Continental Divide
I was dressing for success, you took another road
So much to see, so much to do, so much you had to know.
Justice and truth
The sweetest dreams of youth
They are, they are, aquamarine.
Love called you to sail across a deep dark sea
Beside the dancing Northern lights you made a family
However rough the waters get, you won’t go down
You’re strong and sleek as Viking long boats,
Sailing safe and sound
So many things just slip away
And the heavy things, they always
Fall to the bottom
They’re best forgotten
Sail the long boat
Sail the long boat
What you love will float
You are, you are, aquamarine.
Aquamarine, aquamarine.
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Row Jimmy
06:56
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New York Winter
03:47
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See how the moon walks on the water
When the winter has frozen her path
See how the moon walks on the water
The tugboats crack the ice just like glass
Now winter has come for the Hudson
The George is lighted for the jolly holiday
When winter freezes the Hudson
Her tides run under the ice like a subway
Chorus: Raise a glass to those who came before us
Raise a glass to those to come
Raise a glass to this bright chorus
Till every song is sung
See how the snow flies round the lamppost
Footprints are pressed in the slush
See how the snow flies round the lamppost
As folks bearing gifts homeward rush
I want to see you with snow-spangled hair
White as wisdom, white as hope, white as fleece
I want to see you with snow-spangled hair
Silent night, silver bells, earth at peace
Chorus
See how the sparks fly up the chimney
Let the fireplace burn hot and bright
See how the sparks fly up the chimney
Cares and cinders disappear in the night
The moon says good night to New York City
May you find joy and comfort in your homes
When the moon says good night to New York City
Wanderers rest and no one is alone
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Susan Kane New York, New York
Susan Kane’s award-winning sweet and sharp Americana seeks to alchemize the natural and the ethereal, weaving words and melodies to create moving songs. She is working on her fifth album, but will release singles along the way. As the pandemic recedes, she has returned to live performing, but loves the extended fan reach that Zoom creates. ... more
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