Outside the Nashville City Limits Lyrics

When the mist rolls in on Highway One Like a curtain to the day A thousand silhouettes hold out their thumbs And I see them and I say You are my children My sweet children I ...Read Full Lyrics

Yesterday´s newspapers forecasts no rain for today Yesterday´s news was old news, the skies are all grey Winter´s in labor and soon will give birth to the spring And sprin...Read Full Lyrics

In the early dawn A stallion white Prances the hills In the morning light His bridle is painted With thunder and gold Orchids and dragons Pale knights of old He´s the horse o...Read Full Lyrics

Let's drink to the hard working people Let's drink to the lowly of birth Raise your glass to the good and the evil Let's drink to the salt of the earth Say a prayer for the common...Read Full Lyrics

His daddy was a simple man, just a red dirt Georgia farmer And his momma spent her young live havin´ kids and balin´ hay He had fifteen years and an ache inside to wander So he h...Read Full Lyrics

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) The grey quiet horse wears the reins of dawn, And nobody knows what mountain he's from. In his mouth he carries the golden key, And nobody sees him ...Read Full Lyrics

Today, there's no salvation, the band's packed up and gone Left me standing with my penny in my hand There's a big crowd at the station where the blind man sings his song But he ca...Read Full Lyrics

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) The cats are sleeping here in the autumn sun. Your dog has flushed a deer and he's on the run. And the coffee cup is cold And the morning's feeling ...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, my, but you have a pretty face, You favor a girl that I knew, I imagine that she´s still in Tennessee, And, by God, I should be there, too I´ve a sadness too sad to be true....Read Full Lyrics