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Thread #119662 Message #2596728
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Mar-09 - 03:31 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Guadalupe (Tom Russell)
Subject: ADD: Guadalupe by Tom Russell
Hi, Kat- This is what I found on a Facebook site called Tom Russell's Notes. You'll find also foind the transcription and a video at http://folkqueue.blogspot.com/. I listened to the song myself to verify the transcription, and it seems to me the transcription is accurate.
GUADALUPE (Tom Russell)
There are ghosts out in the rain tonight High up in those ancient trees Lord, I've given up without a fight Another blind fool on his knees
And all the gods that I've abandoned Begin to speak in simple tongues Lord, suddenly I've come to know There are no roads left to run
Now it's the hour of dogs a-barking That's what the old ones used to say It's first light or it's sundown Before the children cease their play
When the mountains glow like mission wine And turn grey like a Spanish roan Ten thousand eyes will stop to worship And turn away and head on home
She is reaching out her arms tonight Lord, my poverty is real I pray roses shall rain down on me From Guadalupe on her hill
But who am I to doubt these mysteries Cured in centuries of blood and candle smoke I am the least of all your pilgrims here I am most in need of hope
She appeared to Juan Diego She left her image on his cape Five hundred years of sorrow Have not destroyed their deepest faith
But here I am your ragged disbeliever Old doubting Thomas drowns in tears As I watched your church sink through the earth Like a heart worn down through fear
She is reaching out her arms tonight Lord, my poverty is real I pray roses shall rain down on me From Guadalupe on her hill
But who am I to doubt these mysteries Cured in centuries of blood and candle smoke I am the least of all your pilgrims here But I am most in need of hope I am the least of all your pilgrims here But I am most in need of hope