Lyr Req: Seven Bridges Road (Steve Young)

Subject: Lyrics to Seven Bridges Road
From: Andre
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 06:32 PM

Need the lyrics to the Seven Bridges Road. I believe Joan Baez had a version on one of her albums. Also believe the Eagles did one too. I've searched the data base to no avail. Did I look in the wrong place. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Lyrics to Seven Bridges Road
From: John Nolan
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 07:59 PM

I think it was written by Steve Young, and was certainly recorded by him, possibly on an album of the same name. I have that album...somewhere! Great song...am searching furiously...meanwhile, Bruce O. coolly and causually saunters over to an impeccibly double-indexed archive...

Subject: RE: Lyrics to Seven Bridges Road
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 08:08 PM

Maybe Bruce O is fast, but Joe O is faster! Click here for the lyrics.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyrics to Seven Bridges Road
From: Andre
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 10:22 PM

John and Joe, much thanks. You're right John, great song. I have done a bit of research myself. Joan Baez duets with Jeffrey Shurtleff on the album One Day At A Time (Vanguard VSD-79310, yes, I've kept a major portion of my vinyls.) Thanks again.

Subject: RE: Lyrics to Seven Bridges Road
From: John Nolan
Date: 14 Jun 98 - 07:59 PM

Yippee! Found the sucker! Steve Young's Seven Bridges Road on Sonet, SNTF 705 (1976). What a great songwriter/singer/player. Vastly underrated. Rarely given the credit for his work. No indication, on Joe's link, for example, that the Eagles were singing someone else's song - the sort of sorry showbiz behavior that is par for the course with Baez, in my experience. Young, from Georgia, started off in the New York folk scene, switched to rock, and then came back to folk. His best stuff has a Hank Williams country sound to it. As a measure of his talent, he has opened for the Waylon Jennings Road Show and has toured with Willie Nelson. Check out http://kywebs.com/SteveYoungOnline/7BridgesRoad.htm for more information on the song and Steve.

Subject: Lyr Add: SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD (Steve Young)
From: Andre
Date: 14 Jun 98 - 08:27 PM

John, thanks for the extra information on Steve Young. I have been able to dig out my Baez album and she does give credit to Steve for the song. The lyrics on Baez album are slightly different than the Eagle's version.
(Baez)
There are stars in the southern sky
It's southward as you go.
There is moonlight and moss in the trees
On the Seven Bridges Road I go.

I have loved you like a baby
And like some motherless child,
I have loved you in a tame way,
And I can love you wild.

Sometimes there is a part of me
Has to turn away and go
Running like child beneath warm stars
On the Seven Bridges Road I go.

There are stars in the southern sky
If ever you decide to go,
There's a taste of damn sweet honey
On the Seven Bridges Road I go.

Again, Mudcat comes through. Thanks, John, for the Steve Young link. I'll check it out.

Andre.

Subject: RE: Lyrics to Seven Bridges Road
From: kiwi
Date: 18 Jun 98 - 11:19 PM

So the Eagles didn't write the song? Ach... another belief of mine shattered....

Sla/n, Kiwi

Subject: RE: Lyrics to Seven Bridges Road
From: CarterNut
Date: 15 Jul 98 - 12:44 AM

If you think that the Eagles or Joan Baez have great versions of this song, you should hear that of the Carter Family:Helen, June, Anita, and Carlene. It can be found on the album "Wildwood Flower"(Mercury 1988).