Posted by Phil on October 28, 2003, at 21:11:53
Gotta love John Hiatt. Sad but beautiful song.
I think Babble needs a music break but what the hell do I know? Okay then...
My baby’s gone and I don’t know why
She let out this morning
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
Left me without warning
Sooner than the dogs could bark
And faster than the sun rose
Down to the banks in an old mule car
She took a flatboat across the shallowChorus:
Left me in my tears to drown
She left a baby daughter
Now the water’s wide and deep and brown
She’s crossing muddy watersTobacco standing in the fields
Be rotten come november
And a bitter heart will not reveal
A spring that love remembers
When that sweet brown girl of mine
Her black eyes are ravens
We broke the bread and drank the wine
From a jug that she’d been savingChorus
Baby’s crying and the daylight’s gone
That big oak tree is groaning
In rush of wind and river of song
I can hear my sweetheart moaning
Crying for her baby child
Or crying for her husband
Crying for that river’s wild
To take her from her loved onesChorus twice
poster:Phil
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