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To: Crocodile who wrote (48498)12/2/2005 2:23:35 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 104155
 
Ah Yes the Yellow Door... I'm familiar

Scrolling the list... I thought what ? no McGarrigles ?? but I kept on going... Lightfoot... Cockburn... Ellen McIllwaine, and Jesse Winchester wow.. I saw him in Montreal at my high school... I still play Yankee Lady :O)
I'm sure I heard it before it was even recorded...

Yankee Lady

I lived with the decent folks
In the hills of old Vermont
Where what you do all day
Depends on what you want
And I took up with a woman there
Though I was still a kid
And I smile like the sun
To think of the loving that we did

She rose each morning and went to work
And she kept me with her pay
I was making love all night
And playing guitar all day
And I got apple cider and homemade bread
To make a man say grace
And clean linens on my bed
And a warm feet fire place

Yankee lady so good to me,
Yankee lady just a memory
Yankee lady so good to me,
Your memory that's enough for me

An autumn walk on a country road
And a million flaming trees
I was feeling uneasy
Cause there was winter in the breeze
And she said, "Oh Jesse, look over there,
The birds are southward bound
Oh Jesse, I'm so afraid
To lose the love that we've found."

Yankee lady so good to me,
Yankee lady just a memory
Yankee lady so good to me,
Your memory that's enough for me

I don't know what called to me
But I know that I had to go
I left that Vermont town
With a lift to Mexico
And now when I see myself
As a stranger by my birth
The Yankee lady's memory
Reminds me of my worth

Yankee lady so good to me,
Yankee lady just a memory
Yankee lady so good to me,
Your memory that's enough for me

©1970 Jesse Winchester
From the LP “Jesse Winchester”


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