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Thread #24514   Message #4100646
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Apr-21 - 05:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords ADD: Wisconsin (Brian Davies)
Subject: ADD: Wisconsin (Brian Davies)
And just because I like the lyrics unmixed with the chords. This is from Jim's post above. I still haven't found a recording to use to verify these lyrics.


WISCONSIN
(Brian Davies)

There's the town--Guess it's better seen in early light of morning
Looks run down--Father wrote that it's been losing since the new highway went through
Here's the place--I was born and raised with seven at the table.
Looks so small--Wonder how this farm can raise a family comfortably at all?
And I want to show you fields I reaped and gathered as I grew
And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew.

Other days--might see deer in open field beside the cattle
Unafraid--until Chicago rifles taught them all to keep inside the woods.
Find the door--many years since this old barn has felt a hammer
Many more--since I heard the sound the wind makes fifty feet above the floor
It's a sound that sets you dreaming if it's dreaming that you do
And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew.

October brought the winter snows from Canada
We'd pass away the time until the spring
April brought the good smell of the earth again
Too many years ago it seems.

Is it late?--In remembering I've forgotten of the hour
Come away--watch the sun die in the pine trees, watch the moon rise on the lake
It's a land that sets you dreaming if it's dreaming that you do
And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew.