How bizarre, I just posted to this thread but the response went nowhere but to thin air. hmmm.

I said:

Jim Dixon, The Nancy Ahern credited on Golden Gradle on Emmylou harris' recording is also credited on another very Trad sounding song she recorded called 'Root Like a Rose' that was included as a bmous track on a remastered release of her album CIMARRON. Now, I could simply be ignorant and it could be a Trad song.. I dunno. In any event it's a lovely song and it's lyrics are:

Root Like a Rose
(written or arrnaged (not sure) by nancy Ahern)

There's a green, green place
Where you lift your face
To the sound of the waves and the wind
Down by the shore
Where my soul does endure
Where the mother sea ends and begins.

Take me home
To the sand and the foam
Where my dreams walk in the mist
I'll fall to the earth and root like a rose
In the salt land
That gave me my verse.

Though I wander afar
The same sea, the same stars
Still shine to the tears in my eyes
They take me home to a land
That my soul understands
Where the heart of the rose never dies.

Take me home
To the sand and the foam
Where my dreams walk in the mist
I'll fall to the earth and root like a rose
In the salt land
That gave me my verse...