The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56403   Message #881720
Posted By: Clinton Hammond
03-Feb-03 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Give the Fiddler a Dram
Subject: ADD: Give the Fiddler a Dram
This one's from Dakota Dave Hull and Jerry Holland... I got it off Garnet Rogers CD "Summer Lightning"

Give The Fiddler A Dram

In this dirty old pool hall
There's no tune that hasn't been played
Everything else Lord you've seen it all
Except for the dreams you've betrayed
You're living way too hard
You know you're dying inside
So as you play your last card
You'll go reeling into the night

(Chorus)
You know winter's coming soon, you can tell by the moon
And you've seen me before as I passed by your door
And you know who I am so give the fiddler a dram

Me and this old time fiddle
We've been around for a while
And there were songbirds that whistled
And pine trees that went on for miles
And I've played to the white-tails,
I played to the wild flowers
To the white rose ghostly and pale
And to the forests uncounted aisles

Now the hills are all bare
The old dog lies still in his sleep
Waiting to hear the songs in the air
But instead hear the earth as she weeps
And I'll write you a song
I'll call it "The Drunkards Reel"
So as you go drifting along
The four winds will know how you feel