Subject: Lyr Req: Under American Skies needed From: GUEST,Lonerwolf Date: 13 May 03 - 04:31 PM Please please please can anyone tell me how to find the lyrics to this song? It's sung by Tom Paxton and Anne Hill and short of rebuying the CD I have no way of getting the lyrics to this song anymore as my booklet has gone missing (been a few months now, I think it may have been thrown by mistake)if anyone can help at all either with a website or (if I'm lucky) with the lyrics themselves can you send to lonerwolf_2000@yahoo.co.uk I'm down on my knees here lol. Lonerwolf |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Under American Skies needed From: MMario Date: 13 May 03 - 04:38 PM Sing Out! Vol 45 #3 (Fall '01) has it. |
Subject: Lyr Add: UNDER THE AMERICAN SKIES (Hills, Paxton) From: open mike Date: 13 May 03 - 05:16 PM And it goes like this: UNDER THE AMERICAN SKIES by Anne Hills and Tom Paxton She was born dirt poor, Grew up gangly and tall, And the State gave her no Real protection at all. Her father'd get drunk And he'd beat her so bad, And her mother wouldn't help, Her man was all that she had. At school, her teachers Just closed their eyes To the bruises on her arms, On her neck and her thighs. She was learning that the world Was bitter and cold, She was only a child, But she was already old. Family ties....Under American Skies As she grew up , She learned to close down her heart; She turned away from love She wouln't let love start. When a man tried rape In a West Texas rain She left him dying and writhing in pain Like a wounded animal She lashed out, mean, Doing what she had seen. But that kink of justice Never heals the hurt, And her tears mixed with blood On her raggedy shirt Anger dries....Under American Skies. CHORUS When we ended slavery, We all went free. When we stopped child labor, That was victory, When the women started voting, True democracy, But we still haven't got it And we still can't let it be, When we're part of a system, Against it or willing, And every last time That the State does the killing, A part of us dies, Under American Skies. They caught her down by the Sant Fe tracks, And the paper called her one of those drug maniacs, The rapist was a member of society So, she got no bail She got a lawyer for free, Her court-appointed lawyer had a vacant smile, He raised no objections, And he slept through the trial Just like her dad, He had booze on his breath. The jury said, "Guilty," And the judge said "Death," Pity flies.....Under American Skies. They sent her to Huntsville, They sent her to Hell, They sent her up to Terrell, To a lock-down cell. She sat on her cot, A couple years crept by, Her appeals ran out And she prepared to die. Her final dress was just a hospital gown, The put her on the gurney And they strapped her down Put needles in her arm, Under surgical tape, And seven minutes later, She had made her escape. Sad good-byes.....Under American Skies. CHORUS |
Subject: Lyr Add: FOLLOW THAT ROAD (Anne Hills) From: open mike Date: 13 May 03 - 05:18 PM This whole CD is filled with incredible pieces. I especially love another of the Anne Hills selections, Follow That Road.
FOLLOW THAT ROAD
If you're coming in the summer, you'd be better to split off on Thirty-Five
If you're drivin' by in autumn, you should follow up the river to Bear Lake.
If you get the notion in December to drop by for just a day,
You'll remember in the springtime how the puddles look like pieces of the sky, |
Subject: Lyr Add: LINKS IN THE CHAIN (Kate Wolf) From: open mike Date: 13 May 03 - 05:40 PM and this one which surprisingly is by Kate Wolf as far as i know it is previously un-recorded: LINKS IN THE CHAIN, by Kate Wolf, 1979, Another Sundown Music Willing to go ahead When other people were afraid Remembered by the questions that they raised Some dead, Some in prison, For the things that they believed, They were links in the chain. Just another link in the chain Just another link in the chain It's the truth growing stronger And the voices speaking louder That makes us links in the chain. Who took the children from the mines The young women from the mills When the bosses turned to look the other way It was the rebel voices raised against The wind, raised high against the wind That fought for the rights we have today. (Tom Paxton added this verse:) Joe Hill and Mother Jones Put their lives right on the line A line that stretches back in history Now we ask ourselves the question "Are those the days to be forgotten?" Or are there some of us who'll dare to be? It's the question and the answers The knowing and the why The standing up to wrong things that we see And it takes more than one Before the battle's won Someone who is not afraid to be. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Under American Skies needed From: GUEST Date: 19 May 03 - 04:24 PM |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Under American Skies needed From: open mike Date: 20 May 03 - 02:12 AM The song about the "dirt poor girl" sounds like the story which i have heard in songs form both Mary Gauthier and Steve Earle , I think, about a girl named Karla. does anyone know if that is who this song is about? (She might have been Karl Fae?) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Under American Skies needed From: GUEST,Lonerwolf Date: 24 May 03 - 08:01 AM OK my last post didnt' actually show... so just to say thank you to all you kind ppl again:D:D:D *smilesss* Lonerwolf |
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