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Track: Bang the Drum Slowly
Artist: Emmylou Harris
Album: Red Dirt Girl

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Name: Emmylou Harris
Spotify Genres: americana, country rock, folk, bluegrass, alt country, classic country, singer-songwriter
Followers: 420,596
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American country / folk singer and songwriter, born on April 2nd, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. In February 2008 Harris was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame. She has been married three times, first with songwriter [a2252179], then with producer [a270587] and in her third marriage with songwriter and producer [a954949].

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Release: Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
Year: 2000
Genres: Rock
Styles: Folk Rock, Country Rock

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LYRICS

(Emmylou Harris/Guy Clark)
I meant to ask you how to fix that car
I always meant to ask you about the war
And what you saw across a bridge too far
Did it leave a scar

Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel
Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal
And still you found the ground beneath your wheels
How did it feel

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost
And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed
There was still that line that you would never cross
At any cost

I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
With nothing but your heart up your sleeve
And if you ever really were deceived
By the likes of me

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

Gone now is the day and gone the sun
There is peace tonight all over Arlington
But the songs of my life will still be sung
By the light of the moon you hung

I meant to ask you how to plow that field
I meant to bring you water from the well
And be the one beside you when you fell
Could you tell

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end