Dave Alvin

Another morning, another motel bed another city waiting up ahead Light another menthol to clear my mind Of those memories I pretend to forget 'cause I always want to live without regrets But, yeah, I still think of her from time to time And is she st

I was born Everett Ruess I've been dead for sixty years I was just a young boy in my twenties The day I disappeared Into the Grand Escalante Badlands Near the Utah and Arizona line And they never found my body, boys Or understood my mind I grew up in

Well, I left my home and my one true love East of the Ohio River My father said we'd never wed For I had me no gold nor silver But my darling dear, please shed no tears But I think that it's fair to warn you That I return to claim your hand As the Ki

Little surfer, little one Made my heart come all undone Do you love me, do you surfer girl? Surfer girl, my little surfer girl I have watched you on the shore Standing by the ocean's roar Do you love me, do you surfer girl? Surfer girl, surfer girl [

I hear a voice singin' somewhere in time A song I knew long ago And it takes me back to places somewhere in time And everyone I used to know I see a face, I remember somewhere in time Someone I loved who's gone away. Gone away somewhere in time Gone

Sundown on the San Joaquim An old woman walks home from work Another day in the fields another day in the dirt She lights a sacred candle Next to a faded photograph And she says a prayer for a man Who fell between the cracks She stares at the photo o

Come on and saddle up boys cause the governor said He'll pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta's Head I hear Joaquin Murrietta's steals horses and gold Killed a sheriff in Mariposa or so I'm told He's the Devil's bloody bastard, wicked and no good

I hope this letter finds you Wherever you may be 'Cause I mailed some awhile back And they were all returned to me Ain't nothin' I can tell you 'bout the hometown Everything changes, but nothing's new Just Sunday night at the kitchen table Finishin'

Dave Alvin (Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI, Administered by Bug Music) There's a greyhound bus Leavin' the great Northwest Takin' her tonight Back down south to Texas She's been dancing' on tables To pay rent and be able To just get by and maybe stay clea

His mama said, "Baby, wait for me in the car" And she went lookin' for his daddy inside a bar So he sat and let the radio take him far away Listenin' to X-P-R-S and K-R-L-A Plastic silver nine volt heart You click it on and let the music start A

Traditional, Arranged by Dave Alvin (Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI, Administered by Bug Music) Blackjack David came a-ridin' through the wood Singin' so loud and merry His voice was a-ringin' through the green, green fields And he spied a fair-haired mai

Dave Alvin/Chris Gaffney (Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI/Calhoun Street Music/Ensaga Songs, BMI, Administered by Bug Music) Johnny gave Joe his first cigarette And Joe lit the filter and then he smoked the whole pack And Joe bought all the gas in Johnny's

Dave Alvin/Tom Russell (Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI/Frontera Music, ASCAP) I guess she put her blue dress on And walked out late last night Left one silk stocking Dangling from the bedside light I sobered up and called her name Just before the dawn I s