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Outside The Nashville City Limits
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Joan Baez
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(Words and Music by Joan Baez)
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Outside the Nashville city limits
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A friend and I did drive,
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On a day in early winter
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I was glad to be alive.
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We went to see some friends of his
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Who lived upon a farm.
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Strange and gentle country folk
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Who would wish nobody harm.
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Fresh-cut sixty acres,
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Eight cows in the barn.
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But the thing that I remember
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On that cold day in December
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Was that my eyes they did brim over
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As we talked.
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In the slowest drawl I had ever heard
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The man said "Come with me
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If y'all wanna see the prettiest place
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In all of Tennesee."
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He poured us each a glass of wine
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And a-walking we did go,
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Along fallen leaves and crackling ice
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Where a tiny brook did flow.
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He knew every inch of the land
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And Lord he loved it so.
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But the thing that I remember
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On that cold day in December
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Was that my eyes were brimming over
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As we walked.
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He set my down upon a stone
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Beside a running spring.
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He talked in a voice so soft and clear
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Like the waters I heard sing.
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He said "We searched quite a time
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For a place to call our own.
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There was just me and Mary John
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And now I guess we're home."
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I looked at the ground and wondered
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How many years they each had roamed.
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And Lord I do remember
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On that day in late December
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How my eyes kept brimming over
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As we talked.
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As we walked.
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And standing there with outstretched arms
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He said to me "You know,
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I can't wait till the heavy storms
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Cover the ground with snow,
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And there on the pond the watercress
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Is all that don't turn white.
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When the sun is high you squint your eyes
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And look at the hills so bright."
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And nodding his head my friend said,
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"And it seems like overnight
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That the leaves come out so tender
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At the turning of the winter..."
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I thought the skies they would brim over
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As we talked.
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© 1970, 1971 Chandos Music (ASCAP)
Joan Baez ~ 500 Miles
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