Subject: Lyr Add: SOO LINE (Craig Johnson)
From:
katlaughing
Date: 23 Feb 03 - 11:07 AM
Here ya go, from the booklet which came with Folk Legacy's tape of Art That's the ticket!:
The SOO LINE
(Craig Johnson)
Like fire in the jack-pines
Mornin' is a-breakin'
Out along the south shore
Down along the Soo Line.
Day shift goin' down,
The night shift's in the dry,
Out along the south shore,
Down along the Soo Line.
I stopped in Marenisco;
There's trouble in the town.
Friday bein' the last payday;
The mills are closin' down.
Young men walkin' home,
They got leavin' on their mind,
Out along the south shore
Down along the Soo Line.
Old men on the highway,
Their backs are bended down,
Blackbirds on the barbed wire
All along the cavin' ground.
Headframes in the long fields,
Ghosts of better times,
Out along the south shore,
Down along the Soo Line.
It was midnight in them high hills;
We were lyin' side by side,
Waitin' for the moonrise,
Warmin' to the wine.
Gazin' in your dark eyes,
Deeper than the sky.
Leavin' in the mornin',
Down below the Soo Line.
(repeat first verse)
Notes: "Here's another of Craig Johnson's vivid songs depicting hard times in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Craig now lives in Washington, D.C., where he performs an integral part of the Double decker string Band."
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