Lyr Req: Backslider's Wine (Michael Martin Murphey

Subject: backsliders wine
From: rvwinkle
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 08:24 PM

I learned Michael Martin Murphy's Backsliders Wine from a Jerry Jeff Walker album quite a few years back. When I sing it in my living room, I shout out "Fight for your rights, Don't just fight for right" quite confidently. However, Jerry Jeff tended to mumble a bit. When I sing it in front of people, so do I.

Anybody know if this is right?

Thanks, rvw

Subject: Lyr Add: BACKSLIDER'S WINE (Michael Martin Murphey
From: Tiger
Date: 07 Jul 01 - 08:49 AM

You've got it!

Backslider's Wine
By Michael Martin Murphey
From Jerry Jeff Walker's "Viva Terlingua"

As the rain ruins my alibi
I'm down to tellin' you my red-eyed mind
It's not the sun bright path
That called me from my home
It's just that fine Backslider's wine.

CHORUS
My momma sings out in my memory
"Son, don't take that black-eyed shine
Fight for your rights
But, son don't fight for right
And do not drink Backslider's wine."

But I took myself for a kind and loving soul
'Til I found my face, face down on the bar room floor
I was crying "Jesus, what have they done to me
I cannot drink Backslider's wine no more."

CHORUS

As the rain ruins my alibi
I'm down to tellin' you my red-eyed mind
It's not the sun bright path
That called me from my home
It's just that fine Backslider's wine.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: backsliders wine
From: rvwinkle
Date: 07 Jul 01 - 11:03 AM

Thanks for putting up the whole thing Tiger. I've done this song so long that I forgot I didn't understand the first line either!

Regards, rvw