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Emmylou Harris My Father's House by Bruce Springsteen
Frank Reckard guitar
Steve Fishell steel guitar
Don Johnson piano
Mike Bowden bass
Steve Turner drums
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Last night I dreamed that I was a child
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Out Where the pines grow wild and tall
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I was trying to make it home through the forest
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Before the darkness falls
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I heard the wind rustling through the trees
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And ghostly voices rose from the fields
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I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path
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With the devil snappin' at my heels
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I broke through the trees, and there in the night
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My father's house stood shining hard and bright
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The branches and brambles tore my clothes and scratched my arms
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But I ran till I fell, shaking in his arms
SOLO
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I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
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Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts
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I got dressed, and to that house I did ride from out on the road,
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I could see his windows shining in light
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I walked up the steps and stood on the porch
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A woman I didn't recognize
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Came and spoke to me through a chained door
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I told her my story, and who I'd come for
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She said "I'm sorry but but no one by that name lives here anymore
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My father's house shines hard and bright
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it stands like a beacon calling me in the night
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Calling and calling, so cold and alone
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Shining `cross this dark highway where all our sins lie unatoned
From Emmylou Harris "Thirteen"
Warner Brothers Records 1986
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