Lyr Add: Across the Borderline

Subject: Lyr Add: ACROSS THE BORDERLINE (Cooder, Hiatt...)
From: Arkie
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 08:48 PM

ACROSS THE BORDERLINE
(Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson)

There's a place, so I've been told,
Every street is paved with gold
And it's just across the borderline
And when it's time to take your turn
There's a lesson that you must learn
You may lose more than you'll ever hope to find.

(chorus)
And when you reach that broken promised land
And all your dreams slip though your hand
You have learned it's too late to change your mind
Cause you pay the price to come so far
Just to wind up where you are
And you're still just across the borderline.

Up and down The Rio Grande
A thousand foot prints in the sand
Reveal a secret no one can define
The river rolls on like a breath
In between our life and death
Tell me who is next to cross that borderline.

(chorus)
And when you reach that broken promised land
And all your dreams slip though your hand
You'll know it's too late to change your mind
Cause you pay the price to come so far
Just to wind up where you are
And you're still just across the borderline.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Across the Borderline
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 11 Jan 00 - 09:47 AM

Thanks for posting this, its one of my favourite Ry Cooder songs.
Patrish

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Across the Borderline
From: GUEST,spikepole
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 10:21 AM

On the sound track to the movie "The Border", Freddie Fender does this in the key of "D". Do you know the rest of the chords? It's a fairly simple song but it has a few minor chords thrown in there that are confusing my limited ability. Thanks

Subject: Across the Borderline - great version
From: olddude
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 09:25 PM

love this version by Miller Anderson and Spencer Davis
probably my favourite Willy Nelson song
across the borderline

Subject: RE: Across the Borderline - great version
From: Arkie
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 10:34 PM

Fine version. Anderson has a great voice and fits the song nicely.    Also really like the John Hiatt and Flaco Jimenez version as well as Ry Cooder's.

Subject: RE: Across the Borderline - great version
From: olddude
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 11:19 PM

Arkie
Ry Cooder for sure does a fine version of this song you are so right my friend

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Across the Borderline
From: Mr Happy
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 12:09 PM

Here's Nellie Wilson doing it - he adds another half verse, I've included it here:

ACROSS THE BORDERLINE (Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson, 1993)

There's a place, where I've been told,
Every street is paved with gold
And it's just across the borderline
And when it's time to take your turn
There's a lesson that you must learn
You could lose more than you'll ever find.

And when you reach that broken promised land
And every dream slips though your hand
You know it's too late to change your mind
Cause you pay the price to come so far
Just to wind up where you are
And you're still just across the borderline.

Up and down The Rio Grande
A thousand footprints in the sand
Reveal a secret no one can define
The river flows on like a breath
In between our life and death
Who쳌fs the next to cross the borderline.

Hope remains when pride is gone
And it keeps you moving on
Carrying you across the borderline


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoqz6V9mqk&feature=fvst

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Across the Borderline
From: olddude
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 09:32 PM

here is a version i did to test a guitar

across the borderline

dan