Tune Req: Eric Andersen song about waitress

Subject: Eric Andersen
From: GUEST,wendee
Date: 20 Mar 00 - 03:00 PM

I am looking for an Eric Andersen song written in the mid to late 70's that I listened to on a trip out west the spring of 1980. It's about a girl working as a waitress in a restaurant but I never found out the name of the song. Can anyone help supply the song name or the album name or even the words as none of Eric's songs are posted on the Net.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Eric Andersen
From: Easy Rider
Date: 20 Mar 00 - 03:19 PM

Speak of the Devil.... I saw him perform last night! He was GREAT.

I would love to find TAB for "Violets of Dawn" and "Thirsty Boots". Does anybody have them or know where to get them?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Eric Andersen
From: Duffy Keith
Date: 20 Mar 00 - 05:50 PM

Hi Wendee, check and see if eric anderson has a website, i know some of his music, but cannot recognize the song you are looking for....DK

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Eric Andersen
From: ddw
Date: 20 Mar 00 - 11:19 PM

Easy, I have an Eric Andersen songbook at home. Haven't looked at it for years, but I think it has those two songs in it. It's not tab, just music and chords, if I remember correctly. If you're interested in that, let me know and I'll work out a way to get them to you.

And Wendee, I'll also check it when I get home to see if there's anything that seems to match your request. It might be helpful, tho', if you could give me a little more of the story line or some other hint to go on.

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Eric Andersen
From: Easy Rider
Date: 21 Mar 00 - 09:07 AM

ddw:

I would LOVE to get ahold of the music for "Thirsty Boots" and "Violets of Dawn". I can type it into TablEdit, to convert it to TAB.

Check your personal page, for an email from me.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Eric Andersen
From: ddw
Date: 21 Mar 00 - 07:35 PM

On its way Thursday, Easy. Enjoy.

david

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Eric Andersen song about waitress
From: Hagman
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 02:36 AM

Eric Andersen Belgian Bar by Eric Andersen

Am Em G
We were living in a nice hotel on the avenue Louise
Am C G Am
Workin on a project there it was just my man and me
Am Em G
I was unattached back then like a puppet off his feet
G Am C G Am
A crazy pile of broken strings only one I had to keep
G F Am G
We walked around the corner saw the lights of a little bar
G Am G
The mood there made me curious a chance to forget awhile
Am Em G
Inside a couple of tables a couple rock 'n roll cassettes
G Am C G Am
I was drinkin rum that night with the barmaid speakin French
G Am
I wonder just how things have changed
G Am
I wonder where you are
C G
And I wonder if a young French girl
F Am
Still works in a Belgian bar
Am Em G
Brussels in October the yellow gray's all I recall
Am C G Am
The rain ran on forever like the wires on a trolley car
Am Em G
Walkin down the new wet streets ancient wind blowin through my heart
G Am C G Am
The only face I couldn't see was the face of my true love
G F Am G
I dreamed about the lights of Nice the rust rocks of the coast
G Am G
I dreamed about a frozen path to the one I missed the most
Am Em G
Then I guess it wasn't long before I was on my feet again
Am C G Am
It must have happened someplace quiet cause I don't remember when
G Am
I wonder just how things have changed
G Am
I wonder where you are
C G
And I wonder if a young French girl
F Am
Still works in a Belgian bar
Am Em G
When I look over my shoulder from the window of my train
G Am C G Am
I think about my man again who I heard has moved to Spain
Am Em G
We worked hard and we traveled some through France and Italy
G Am C G Am
When it rained down hard in Brussels it poured on you and me
G F Am G
And when my eyes got tangled in the honey colored hair
G Am G
Of the girl that poured the drinks that night when we were talkin
there
Am Em G
She had eyes that seemed to drink us up and a crooked little smile
Am
When we sailed off for the starry night
C G Am
And forever took a little while
G Am
I wonder just how things have changed
G Am
I wonder where you are
C G
And I wonder if a young French girl
F Am
Still works in a Belgian bar

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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Eric Andersen song about waitress
From: leeneia
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 10:35 AM

Thanks, Hagman. I like those lyrics.

    Brussels in October the yellow gray's all I recall

    The rain ran on forever like the wires on a trolley car

Reminds me of Bill Bryson writing about a weeks-long rainy spell in England. "It was like living in Tupperware."