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21 Nov 01 - 09:44 PM (#597640) Subject: Lyr Add: OLD JEROME (Kate Wolf) From: Stewie OLD JEROME (Kate Wolf) Drinking early morning coffee, Talking with good friends And walking the streets of rough cut stone She was once a miner's city Now the ghost of a dying town But there's a fire burning bright in Old Jerome Some have come for fortune Some have come for love And some have come for the things they cannot see Now the grass is green and growing Where the gardens once had died And the birds sing in the young alanthus trees And they say that once you live here You never really go 'Cause she'll have a hold on you until you die With her ground moving crazy Her fierce wind blowing free And her ruins standing proud against the sky Houses cling to mountains Like miners cling to dreams They hold on so long and then they just let go And this mountain she's your mistress You'll ride her 'til you fall And wash down to the valley far below There are stories that tell on Cleopatra There are stories that never can be told The wind and the rain sing their mountain lullaby The copper shines like Arizona gold And her walls stand strong and silent Starin' out with empty eyes Like beggars, blind and lame, that do no harm With their empty rooms that hold The old town's memories And their doorways that reach out like empty arms In the streets the children play Climbing up the crooked stairs And lovers touch and turn to go back home And the sounds of hammers echo In the once forgotten halls And hope stirs in the heart of Old Jerome The moon shines bright on Cleopatra Where the mines lie sleeping far below The wind and the rain sing their mountain lullaby And the copper shines like Arizona gold Words and music by Kate Wolf. Copyright 1983 Another Sundown Publishing Co. BMI. Source: Kate Wolf 'The Wind Blows Wild' Rhino CD R2 71486. Note: Jerome is an old mining town, perched halfway up Cleopatra Hill (part of Mingus Mountain), that has survived as an artists' colony. Founded in 1876, the town sits above what was the largest copper mine in Arizona. In 1929, its population was 15,000 and it prospered until the mines and the mining economy began petering out during the Great Depression. --Stewie.
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21 Nov 01 - 11:26 PM (#597667) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Jerome From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Like so many of the old mining towns in the southwest. My grandfather set up a newspaper in a town called Elizabethtown in New Mexico. The paper got up to 16 pages (a lot in the old west of the 1890's). Now there is nothing there and the site is on patrolled ranch land. I will have to look up Kate Wolf's cd. She is new to me. |
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22 Nov 01 - 12:20 AM (#597691) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Jerome From: Art Thieme I think Katie Lee lives there--or used to. She of Songs Of The Colorado River on Folkways and the fine book Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle. Art Thieme |
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22 Nov 01 - 01:21 AM (#597736) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Jerome From: Stewie Art, The note to the song on the CD reads: 'Kate wrote this song while visiting folksinger vaudevillian Katie Lee in Arizona. Katie Lee performed this song on the TV special 'Portraits of America' and in 1987 it was adopted by the town council of Jerome as the official town song'. --Stewie. |
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22 Nov 01 - 08:53 AM (#597794) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Jerome From: Jeri The official Kate Wolf Website. There aren't any lyrics, but there are quite a few samples of songs and information on Kate and how to buy her recordings and songbooks. |
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26 Jul 10 - 03:00 PM (#2952646) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Jerome From: open mike Wil Maring http://www.wilmaring.com/ will be playing Wednesday July 28, 2010 in Jerome, AZ at "Quince" on Main St. 6pm. |