Emmylou Harris
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Black Gypsy
Broken bottles, broken songs
Broken people been in town too
long
Where's everyone gone
Ooh, baby this city gonna break your heart
Oh, gipsy please
tell me
Where everyone's gone
Never had a second name
Never spoke of why we came
Fellowship and Gloriousness
The loneliness of pain
Sitting in the rain
Why is the soul of me
Where is my heart
Where is the
part of me
That I would give to you
If kindness were my style
Where is the soul of me
Where is my heart
In my own time
Better leave it behind
In a thousand bottles of wine
Oh, precious plans of standing strong
Why is life taking so
long
I would tell you everything
If I only had the words to explain
Don't know nothing but the rain
Why is the soul of me
Where is my heart
Where is the
part of me
That I would give to you
If kindness were my style
Where is the tenderness
Where is the warmth
In my own
soul
That I let it grow old
Oh, it's getting so cold
Broken bottles, broken songs
Broken faces been in town too
long
Where has everyone gone
Oh, baby this city gonna break your heart
Oh, gipsy please
tell me
Where everyone's gone
Oh, gipsy please tell me
Where everyone's gone
Where
everyone's gone
Where everyone's gone
Waltz Of The Magic Man
The very first time I ever saw my Tommy love
He came
dancing into my room
And I felt the sunlight sparkle warm
Out from his
magic shoes
And he danced so proud
And he laughed so wild
And he
charmed me like a piper
When he smiled
So dance with me, dance with me, sing with me can't you see
I'm following the rainbow kissed strands of your magic carol
Follow your
joyful song anywhere, anywhere my raggedy magical music man
For I am only
your tag along raggedy-anne and I want you to hold me
As long as your raggedy
magical music carol can
He asked me if I'd like to have my own parade
I answer yes
and he blew his golden horn
Then the violins and the trumpets rang out he led
them all
In a coat of many colors patched and torn
And he swung me to a loving sound
While the fiddlers played
and pranced around
He spun so fast 'til we left the ground
Then the music filled the heavens with a joyful noise
The
stars would dance to greet us as we'd come
Then he'd wave his hand and send
them back to the morning light
And we'd keep climbing through the midnight
sun
On a rocking horse with wings we'd fly
To a place where
dreams can never die
Lovers little children in the sky
So dance with me, dance with me, sing with me can't you see
I'm following the rainbow kissed strands of your magic carol
Follow your
joyful song anywhere, anywhere my raggedy magical music man
For I am only
your tag along raggedy-anne and I want you to hold me
As long as your raggedy
magical music carol can
And when it came time for my Tommy love to leave
I begged
him please to stay and save my soul
And with a fading voice I heard him say
as he danced away
You know I can't even save my own
And now when I look up I see
The stars are dancing the same
as he
I think of him wherever he may be
And he danced so proud
And he laughed so wild
And he
charmed me like a piper
When he smiled
And he danced so proud
And he laughed so wild
Charmed me
like a piper
When he smiled
And he danced
For No One
The day breaks your mind aches
You find that all her words
of kindness linger on
She no longer needs you
She wakes up she makes up
She takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the
tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
You want her you need
her
And yet you don't believe her when she said her love is dead
You think
she needs you
She goes out you stay home
She says that long ago she knew
someone but now he's gone
She doesn't need him
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the
tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
Your day breaks your
mind aches
There will be time when all the things she said
Will fill your
head
You won't forget her
Before Believing
Winter Summer seasons is taken over it's quiet
Like new
fallen snow
I told you summer stories but outside is getting mighty cold
I
told you everything I could about me
Told you everything I could
How would
you feel if the world was falling apart around you
Pieces of the sky were falling in your neighbors yard
But
not on you
Wouldn't you feel just a little bit funny
Think maybe there's
something you oughta do
Solutions that never lay down before you the answers are all
around
Believing is all the friend you need to talk to
Believing in you
I told you everything I could about me
Told you everything I could
I told you everything I could about me
Told you everything
I could
Sin City
This old town is filled with sin
It will swallow you in
If you've got some money to burn
Take it home right away
You've got three
years to pay
But Satan is waiting his turn
The scientists say
It will
all wash away
But we don't believe any more
Cause we've got our recruits
And our green mohair suits
So please show your I.D. At the door
This old
earthquake's gonna leave me in the poor house
It seems like this whole town's
insane
On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door
Won't keep out the
Lord's burning rain
A friend came around
Tried to clean up this town
His
ideas made some people mad
But he trusted his crowd
So he spoke right out
loud
And they lost the best friend they had
This old earthquake's gonna
leave me in the poor house
It seems like this whole town's insane
On the
thirty-first floor a gold plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain
On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's
burning rain
Amarillo
My baby never was the cheatin' kind
But it wasn't 'cause
the ladies didn't try
Now everywhere we go
They're walkin' 'round him slow
Givin' him a flutter and a sigh
Now I got him past that redhead in Atlanta
Lord I walked all over that black-eyed cajun queen
But outside of Amarillo,
he found his thrill, I'll tell you
Oh, I lost him to a jukebox and a pinball
machine
Oh Amarillo what'd you want my baby for
Oh Amarillo now he
won't come home no more
You done played a trick on me
Hooked him in the
first degree
While he put another quarter
Push Dolly and then Porter
While he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine
If we only hadn't stopped in there for coffee
If someone
hadn't played The Window Up Above
He'd still be mine today
But he heard
those fiddles play
One look and then I knew this must be love
Oh that
pinball machine was in the corner
Well he saw the lights and he had to hear
'em ring
And he never was the same after he won his first free game
Oh I
lost him to a jukebox and a pinball machine
Oh Amarillo what'd you want my baby for
Oh Amarillo now he
won't come home no more
You done played a trick on me
Hooked him in the
first degree
While he put another quarter
Push Dolly and then Porter
While he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine
Oh Amarillo what'd you want my baby for
Oh Amarillo now he
won't come home no more
You done played a trick on me
Hooked him in the
first degree
While he put another quarter
Push Dolly and then Porter
While he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine
Sorrow In The Wind
I hear the soft wind sighing
In every bush and tree
The
sound of my heart crying
When you are far from me
When we're apart, my darlin'
There's sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin
Sweet sorrow in the wind
You leave me in the morning
Your footsteps die away
Tho'
not a leaf is stirring
I hear the wind all day
When we're apart, my darlin'
There's sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin'
Sweet sorrow in the wind
They say when love grows older
It dies and fades away
Yet all our life together
One ever brightening day
When we're apart, my darlin'
There's sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin'
Sweet sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin'
There's sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin'
Sweet sorrow in the wind
Sweet sorrow in the
wind
Roses In The Snow
I met my darlin' in the springtime
When all the flowers
were in bloom
And like the flowers our love blossomed
We married in the
month of June
Our love was like a burning ember
It warmed us as a golden
glow
We had sunshine in December
And threw our roses in the snow
Now God has taken my darlin'
And left me with a memory
A
memory I will always cherish
Are these last words he said to me
Our love was like a burning ember
It warmed us as a golden
glow
We had sunshine in December
And threw our roses in the snow
My darlin's buried on the hillside
Where all the wild
spring flowers grow
And when winter snows start fallin'
On his grave I'll
place a rose
Our love was like a burning ember
It warmed us as cold
winds blow
We had sunshine in December
And threw our roses in the snow
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László Zoltán 2013
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