YOUR Favorite Tom Paxton Songs?

Subject: RE: What's YOUR Favorite Tom Paxton Song?
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 06 Jul 17 - 05:18 PM

All along the Verdigris

Subject: ADD: Early Snow (Tom Paxton)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Apr 21 - 05:26 PM

Jerry Michaels sings "Early Snow," and I love it.

http://www.mydfz.com/Paxton/lyrics/es.htm

EARLY SNOW
Words and Music by Tom Paxton

The elk are coming down from the hills each morning.
The winter grazing´s better here below.
The evening sky last night was like a warning.
It´s cold outside, looking like early snow this morning,
It´s cold outside, looking like early snow.

Every year this town is getting smaller,
The kids can hardly wait to up and go.
And now they´ve closed the high school down forever.
It´s cold outside, looking like early snow this morning,
It´s cold outside, looking like early snow.

Clouds up over the Bitter Roots getting darker every day.
As soon as the wind turns westerly, they´re bound to head this way.
There´s been no rain all summer. All the grass is brown,
This rodeo is over. This circus is leaving town.

Another farming family left the valley.
They left last night, nobody heard ´em go.
They left the tractor standing in the hay field.
It´s cold outside, looking like early snow this morning,
It´s cold outside, looking like early snow.

Clouds up over the Bitter Roots getting darker every day,
Soon as the wind turns westerly, they´re bound to head this way.
There´s been no rain all summer, and all the grass is brown.
This rodeo is over. This circus is leaving town.

The elk are coming down from the hills each morning.
The winter grazing´s better here below.
The evening sky last night was like a warning.
It´s cold outside and looking like early snow this morning.
It´s cold outside, looking like early snow.
It´s cold outside and looking like early snow.

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Capo 2nd fret

    

    G                                       C/G
  The elk are coming down from the hills each morning. 
      G                              D/F#
  The winter grazing's better here below.
      G                                 C/G
  The evening sky last night was like a warning:
       G             D7/F#              G   G/F#  Em
  It's cold outside, looking like early snow this morning.
       G             D/F#               G
  It's cold outside, looking like early snow.
  

Every year this town is getting smaller.
The kids can hardly wait to up and go.
And now they've closed the high school down forever.
It's cold outside, looking like early snow this morning.
It's cold outside, looking like early snow.

  
Em                                     Bm
  Clouds up over the Bitterroots getting darker every day,
     C                                        G                       G/F#
  As soon as the wind turns westerly, they're bound to head this way.
          Em                       Bm
  There's been no rain all summer; all the grass is brown.
       C                   G                 D     Dsus2   Dsus2/C   Dsus2/B   Dsus2/A
  This rodeo is over, this circus is leaving town.
  

Another farming family left the valley.
They left last night; nobody heard 'em go.
They left the tractor standing in the hay field.
It's cold outside, looking like early snow this morning.
It's cold outside, looking like early snow.

Clouds up over the bitterroots getting darker every day,
As soon as the wind turns westerly, they're bound to head this way.
There's been no rain all summer; all the grass is brown.
This rodeo is over, this circus is leaving town.

The elk are coming down from the hills each morning.
The winter grazing's better here below.
The evening sky last night was like a warning:
It's cold outside, looking like early snow this morning.
It's cold outside, looking like early snow.
It's cold outside, looking like early snow.

(Words and music by Tom Paxton, 2002)

Subject: RE: What's YOUR Favorite Tom Paxton Song?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Apr 21 - 05:14 AM

There are so many. I was recalling My Son John, yesterday, and then there is the very funny, What a Way to Run an Airline.
I still sing Wild Flying Dove, Last Thing on my Mind, and Leaving London, among several others, in fact I think I have more of his songs in my repertoire, than songs by any other writer.

Subject: RE: What's YOUR Favorite Tom Paxton Song?
From: voyager
Date: 27 Apr 21 - 07:24 PM

Last Thing on My Mind (I forget).

voyager

Subject: RE: What's YOUR Favorite Tom Paxton Song?
From: GerryM
Date: 27 Apr 21 - 10:12 PM

No one has mentioned Dubarry Done Gone Again. I don't know whether Tom Paxton ever recorded it, but he wrote it, and it's on the Chad Mitchell Trio album, Singin' Our Minds. Not my absolute favorite Tom Paxton song, but it's a good one.

Subject: RE: What's YOUR Favorite Tom Paxton Song?
From: Stewie
Date: 27 Apr 21 - 11:16 PM

Yes, the Chad Mitchell Trio did an excellent job on several Paxton songs.

My Paxton favourites are 'When Princes Meet' and 'Jimmy Newman'.

Recollecting on Paxton, I recall the unkind description of him by Dave Marsh in the 'Rolling Stone Record Guide' as 'a smugly sanctimonious product of the early sixties folk movement'. He went on to write that Paxton 'quickly declined into sentiment and a kind of ham-handed political sermonising about obvious subjects'. He gave a 1-star rating to 'Rambling Boy. This almost put me off reading Marsh reviews which I considered mostly very fine.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: What's YOUR Favorite Tom Paxton Song?
From: Elmore
Date: 27 Apr 21 - 11:53 PM

Screw David Marsh. I'm so glad that Tom revived "my Lady's a Wild Flying Dove", my favorite Paxton song. Even the intro, when he talks about meeting the love of his life is memorable. I really enjoy two of his somewhat recent songs, "Ireland", and "If the Poor Don't Matter."