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RunrigFan Lyr ADD: Across the Great Divide (Kate Wolf) (23) ADD: Across the Great Divide (Kate Wolf) 30 Jan 18


ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE
(Kate Wolf)

I've been walkin' in my sleep
And countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep
Where the years went I can't say
(But) I just turned around and they've gone away
And I've been siftin' through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know
It was one that happened so long ago.

CHORUS
It's gone away in yesterday
And (Now) I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide

Well (Yes) I heard the owl a-callin'
Softly as the night was fallin'
With a question and I replied
But he's gone across the borderline

He's gone away in yesterday
And (Now) I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide.

(And the) The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day
When the darkness rolls away.

It's gone away in yesterday
And I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide.

It's gone away in yesterday
And I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide.

Studio recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Kn3j7o2yY

Kate Wolf live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvH9tOaOOh0 [live performance variants in the lyrics are in parentheses]

Nanci Griffith & Emmylou Harris Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uQNRTnsntY


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