I met a girl from Manitoba
Where the wind is wild on the Hudson Bay
She could’ve been from Oklahoma
If she didn’t live so far away

Prairie girl I read your letters
As I stood by the tracks of the C.P.R.
Every word just like a tear drop
Every stain, a broken heart

Chorus:
Maple tears in the letters she sends
Red like the dirt in the Tulsa wind
Sweet like cane on the delta bed
Oh them maple tears in the letters she sends

I been inside ten thousand barrooms
I seen the arms of that big old river
Stretching far out to the sea

Chorus

I met a girl from Manitoba

You keep on sayin it’s not the kind of car I drive

There’s all this gold in the world but were lucky if we get by

Blood is thicker than wine but you don’t see it

till you go stone blind open your eyes see by the light of the moon

Chorus

Just say what you want to say

And do what you want to do

Go on your own way let me go on mine too

Were starting a family building a house into a home

All these hopes and asperations will never keep you warm

You know that love is the only thing it can move mountains

It’s the crown upon the king open your heart under the light of the moon

Chorus

Chorus

Intrusmental break (key change)

Just say what you want to say

And do what you want to do

Go on your own way I’ll be coming home soon

I’ll be coming home soon

I’ll be coming home soon

I’ll be coming home soon

Capo 2

Chorus:
Oh me oh my oh, won’t you look at Miss Ohio
She’s a-running around with her rag-top down
She wants to do right just not right now

Gonna drive to Atlanta and live out this fantasy
Running around with the rag-top down
Yeah gonna do right just not right now

Had your arm around her shoulder like a regimental soldier
Mamma’s pushing that wedding gown
She wants to do right but not right now

Chorus

I know all about it, so you don’t have to shout it
I’m gonna straighten it out somehow
Yeah I’m gonna do right just not right now

Chorus

One Foot in the Ether

“Shine a Light”

Intro:

Chorus:

Whoa shine, shine a light on me

And that door, open up and set me free

And I hear, I hear you callin me

You gotta open up and shine your lovin light on me

Well my hands are dirty

But my heart is ready

My knees are weak, but my back is strong

And my hand on the plow is steady

Chorus

Solo(Verse chords)

My daddy told me every morning
You’ve got to put your shoulder
Up against the stone,
It dont matter if you ever get it rollin

Chorus

Solo(Verse Chords)

Well there’s a train a-coming
I can see the headlights
All of God’s children gonna get on board
And there aint nobody gonna be left behind

Chorus X3

Capo 3

When you think you’ve seen it all, through tears in your eyes
Your head hanging low, the moon on the rise
Well I think of you, oh, I pray for you
May your days pass like Sundays, may your nights lay you down

Chorus:
Let Your Heart Not Be Troubled
Cast your doubts to the wind
Lay your chains in the rubble
Let your heart not be troubled anymore

Bed sheets grow cold, every now and again
Each stone in the road, a place where we been
But where are we now, tell me, where are we now
Lay your dreams on my pillow, and we’ll get there somehow

Chorus

Bridge:
Well, sometimes a love comes undone in the wind
You can’t see your shoes, where you go, where you been
So I’ll wait around right here, so I don’t lose my way
I never had no direction anyway

Chorus

Sleep don’t overtake me here, don’t run me down like this
I got miles before they gonna lay me down I ain’t ready yet
No I ain’t there yet
Quaalude Highway hypnotizing the lines across my face
One more sign before my mind begins hallucinating
Can’t stay awake
So give me something strong and let the night roll on to day

Chorus:
Unsleeping eye, don’t you fail me now
Crack a window wide and put your right foot down
So daydream through the night
But keep them wheels a spinning round and round
Unsleeping eye, say don’t you fail me now

There’s a girl at home she waiting up ‘til dawn
Lord she could use some sleep
I flash my brights and I dim my lights
I sink down a little deeper into my seat
Just to get back home this old rolling stone
Gone a thousand miles a night
Grant me speed and eyes to see my lonely girl tonight
She’s so outta sight
Lord don’t make me sleep like a refugee it ain’t right

Chorus

Bridge:
Blacktop asphalt grooving past all the rhythm in the lines
I’m locked down deep into the pocket, the sunrise keeping my time
All I ask is a tank of gas and a cup of coffee strong
Highway moon gonna keep me moving, I’m driving all night long

Chorus

Nine steps down on a ten story ride
One part love and two parts pride
Three tons of steel and four miles to go
Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico

Rigged on point, top of the tower
Watch for those waves they’ll be rising fast
Call from the driller down on the shore
Derrickhand you better keep pumping that gas

No time to think of the girls in their cotton
Dresses they wear in the early springtime
Memories here they’re all long forgotten
Nine steps down on a ten story ride
Nine steps down on a ten story ride

All of the boys thought you were a beauty
My motivation was a little less kind
Come with me I got something to show you
Out past the trees where the river runs wild

My oh my you were more than I bargained
For one time at the five and dime
Spending all my nickels and quarters
One part love and two parts pride

Put the hammer on down, we might just make it
Watch your eyes from drifting off the road
Drink ‘em on down five for a dollar
Get it to the man with the weekly load

The rubber on the tires burning like a matchstick
Blacklist heart on a long ride home
Ain’t no god just a lifetime of Sundays
Three tons of steel and four miles to go

Water rising all around your mind
The slack pulling fast but you try to stay loose
There’s a storm rolling in on New Orleans
Gonna string everybody in a hang man’s noose

Nine steps down on a ten story ride
One part love and two parts pride
Three tons of steel and four miles to go
Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico

Capo 4

Rolling down hill just as fast as you can
Trying to get away from the people and places you know
You know

Broken down flat but you’re wild and free
Flow like a river rolling into the sea and you grow
You grow

I’m not hypnotized, or even surprised, by the way things always been
And a long, long time, of me being fine, to put it back together again

Chorus:
This I know
This I know
This I know

Running in circles chasing your tail
Burning down churches waiting for the rain to come
To come

Looking for room but the walls closing in
Opening doors just to get out again, and it shows
It shows

Choking and smoking on all of the air that you’ve been trying to breath
Putting out flames with the storm of your name, gonna get it back together again

Chorus

Bridge:
Trying to get yourself up from the bottom
Of the hole that you dug in, of the hole that you dug in

Chorus

Steam rising off of the river at the break of day
Light creeping into room 218 at the Beaujolais
Left you crawling across the floor, head ringing, your eyes so sore
G D Am
Bloodshot, drowning, while you down another bottle away

The ashtray is overflowing, it’s full of gray days
The devil that you knew one time, may be the devil you save
Get up and find your shoes, there are some things that you just don’t lose
The street’s been creeping with the barefooting blues for days

Chorus:
Call me from the Second Line
Pour us up some cheap French wine
Pick up your feet, leave your blues fading to gray
Come on now cut your soul loose, the Second Line’s dancing away

There’s a crowd down under the window in a big parade
They got a brass band dancing in front, Umbrellas they wave
They gonna shake it ‘til the sun come down, they just laid old Moses deep in the ground
Get yourself together, walk yourself right out of your grave

Chorus 2:
Call me from the Second Line
Pour us up some cheap French wine
Pick up your feet, leave your blues fading to gray
You got to rise up and put on your hat
You ain’t good, but you ain’t that bad
The dirge is over, the band’s just beginning to play
Come on now cut your soul loose, the Second Line’s dancing away

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I pack my bags, shrug off the rain
I’m scattered on the interstate, I just call out your name
Telephone lines, they get me down
I been so outta touch I lost my phone there back in town
My mortgage due, pay back my loans
Pay them by the US mail, a thousand miles from home
You should be, so wild and free
Right here with me

I pull myself, right outta bed
Another roach motel, don’t touch the bed spread
That’s what you say, when you come along
But now I’m looking for a laundromat in a town I don’t belong
Another dram and a drop of tears
Let’s drag the Colorado up and back for all these years
Well you should be so wild and free
Right here with me

Bridge:
Right here with me, out here on the fringe
So wild and free, just hanging by a thread
Someday I may quit my ramblin’ round, but somehow
Right here with me is where I want to have you now

I stretch the ties, the ties that bind
They holding in a double knot, sometimes they get so tight
It’s been so long, since I been gone
Blue-eyed soul blowing in the wind a song of home
Oh you should be, so wild and free
Right here with me