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Cows on the Highway

by Shawn Waggoner

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1.
Salvation Train She went down to the station to say goodbye to him Before he got on the train he took her hand He said his last goodbyes and she swore she’d be alright And the rain fell hard from the sky The rain fell hard I’m just sitting here watching strangers at the station All night long the trains roll in, then they pull away I’ve lived a hundred lives so I don’t have to live mine And I keep waiting on the salvation train I see a girl of 16 standing in the corner Checks her ticket, bums a smoke In a green dress she waits, watching for the 12:08 Moonlit tracks glisten in the rain Moonlit tracks glisten The rain’s letting up here at the station I see a woman with flowers in her hair She smiles and says hello, is she someone I used to know? She aint waiting on a train… I’m just sitting here watching strangers at the station All night long the trains roll in, then they pull away I’ve lived a hundred lives so I don’t have to live mine And I keep waiting on the salvation train Salvation train, I’m ready to depart Hair in flowers, green dress on and I’ll leave my broken heart, I will journey to a place I used to know, Through the quiet cold I will sparkle like the snow Salvation train, please take me home COPYRIGHT 2006 SHAWN WAGGONER
2.
Home 02:54
Home In the raindrops on the pine trees I see everything I see further than I’ve ever seen My heart’s no longer heavy I have tumbled home O’er windy plains I no longer roam Home’s the place that’ll catch you when you fall And we all fall Blessings flow like rivers free, full is the moon I rest in peace on my silver spoon How little I have now become though I grow old Hearth fires of my home keep me from the cold In this place where love abides and friends are guests It’s surely home sweet home for there My heart can rest COPYRIGHT 2006 SHAWN WAGGONER
3.
Rolling Blue 03:00
Rolling Blue Through the blue fields You come running home And I stretch out my arms Draw you to my heart knows this is but a dream For never have I seen Rolling fields of blue Rolling fields of blue Rolling fields of blue Rolling fields of blue In the blue fields I wait for you each night But always with the light You fade into a dreamland Where wishes do come true There’s only me and you And rolling fields of blue Softly through your hair the wind blows But I know you’re not there, you’re no longer mine COPYRIGHT 2006 SHAWN WAGGONER
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Cows on the Highway Cows on the highway Cows in the middle of the road Cows on the highway Nowhere to go Two days since I set out from Lubbock For a thousand miles I’ve been out of my head Each turn of the wheel brings me closer But I fear I may already be dead I stop here ‘cause straight up ahead, there are Lovers who walk in the sun hand in hand Forget what it’s like to be cold For love to stay with me and not leave me drifting I’d fill up all your pockets with gold I need to go where this road goes, but there are In the midnight garden we dance until dawn By the seaside I walk with my babies in arms I awake to these cows who, instead of roaming on farms, Are lowing in and out of my dreams Dawn breaks on the two-lane, not a bovine in sight No trace, no signal, no sign In deep sleep blue angels found me With their blessing I may still reach home in time But I live with the fear that I’ll find COPYRIGHT 2006 SHAWN WAGGONER
5.
Hazel Says 04:43
Hazel Says Hazel waits in her painted egg for her story to begin, She can hear the rush of butterfly wings, it’s so quiet in her den Hazel shoots like a start across the skies, lights my will And Hazel spins a silver web around my life, like a tiny spider in my window sill Hazel lives in a crystal dish Like a sugar coated gum drop If I should dare to pick her up I’ll find it hard to stop When I’m lost and when I tired I wonder what sets me free Hazel says It’s me Hazel shine a grey-green light on everything I am And Hazel doesn’t even know she deserves a better man Hazel scares me like a storm whose fury’s been unleashed But the beauty of that power overcomes the great unease Hazel makes me think of land as seen from in the air Red clay circles, green velvet patches, angels in the cornfields down there Hazel smells like home when I get off the plane And the complete comfort of being where I belong again Hazel says to hear the ocean I have to quiet down…. COPYRIGHT 2006 SHAWN WAGGONER
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I Wonder Where You Are Tonight The moon casts a pale blue light on the rooftops Dry lightning out east tonight I’m driving around On the outskirts of town And I wonder where you are tonight Made many mistakes, played too close to the vest Had nothing to lose so why fight In your eyes I did see All that I will never be And I wonder where you are tonight You said you were leaving I thought for awhile Forever I will not abide Black of night flashes bright Silos stand by Your parting I will not survive The moon casts a pale blue light on the rooftops Dry lightning out east tonight I wanna fetch you back home But the damage is done And I wonder where you are tonight If I could just get you home But the back streets I roam And I wonder where you are tonight COPYRIGHT 2006 SHAWN WAGGONER
7.
Incurable 02:45
Incurable And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new -- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss. The reckless vow, the lovely name, When Helen walked, were spoke the same; The weighted breast, the grinding woe, When Phaon fled, were ever so. Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what’s a girl, to dare implore Her dear be hers forevermore? Though he be tried and he be bold, And swearing death should he be cold, He’ll run the path the others went.... But you, my sweet, are different.
8.
Autumn 03:45
Autumn I’m a scarecrow in the moonlight And I scare those who dare Trod my fields where cornsilk rustles underfoot Moonbeams dance off pumpkin skulls and bails of hay Til the day breaks out of the twisted oaks to find me still, alone And autumn more than falls before me I see myself from up above Autumn find the leaves still falling Dead as any former love The years out here have kept me well Unscathed by change, unmoved by pain that clings to Spanish moss like October rain When crows approach they’re well aware I live to scare though they dare light there, where spite, not interest, shows they care Leave my shoulder Quell your jeer You were never welcome here Your presence mocks me Am I that tame? Fear my love by any name COPYRIGHT 2006 SHAWN WAGGONER
9.
Valentine’s Day My love a constellation above so high Only revealed as a long day passes by Turns to diamonds in a cobalt sky My heart you now see with your naked eye Thousands of tiny stars that surround me Come together and shine down upon me In the sun I’m beautiful And in the light you see what I do Points on a map that helped me to find you You are truth, you’re beautiful And in the warmth of your sun any walls I built fall away And all the flowers that died there rise up to the happy day The music that hides there comes out to play And all of this happens every time you say I love you COPYRIGHT 2006 SHAWN WAGGONER
10.
Jagoe 03:47
Jagoe You went runnin’ and a runnin’ flying down to Mexico In your blue Chevrolet you’re hiding out a trunk full of gold You never had nothin’, now nothin’s all you got to lose You got the radio rockin’ LeRoi’s Rhythm and Booze Jagoe, Jagoe Your black hair’s flying out the windows and up through the top And your blue eyes are flashin’, hope those headlights don’t belong to a cop They said you couldn’t do it, said you’d have to bring in some help But you pulled it off baby only one you have to thank is yourself Jagoe, Jagoe He went runnin’ and runnin’ thought he’d left you to heartache and blues No place to live and baby needs a new pair of shoes You thought about ways to dig yourself outta that hole But none could satisfy the restless burnin’ in your soul Jagoe, Jagoe If you reach the border by midnight you beat your own time One last look in the rearview, victory’s sublime If they told you thievin’ and stealin’ would fit like a glove, If they told you breaking the law was like making love… Jagoe, Jagoe COPYRIGHT 2006 Shawn Waggoner
11.
85 Drive 05:29
85 Drive Oh lonesome highway Oh lonesome road Black ribbon through the heartland Carry me home Carry me home Corn fields afire Corn fields aflame Black smoke rises, cloud disguises Evening shade Evening shade Red lights flash, cops car goes past Truck turned over in the tall gold grass Mangled metal, broken glass Cattails swaying Fireflies out at last Hope the end found them quickly If their time here had come May they find their way through dark skies Into his loving arms Oh lonesome highway Oh lonesome road Like a prayer The road’s salvation will carry us home Carry us home Carry us home COPYRIGHT 2006 SHAWN WAGGONER

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Shawn Waggoner and the Tumblyweeds released their fourth cd, Cows on the Highway, in the summer of 2006. This new eclectic mix of story songs and sonic landscapes was recorded live, with no guest performances. This one is pure “Weeds.”
Shawn Waggoner and the Tumblyweeds blend intense vocals and unique arrangements on a canvas of powerful storytelling. This Colorado-based trio consists of Shawn Waggoner (songwriting, lead vocal, acoustic guitar), David Farrell (bowed acoustic bass) and Woody Myers (acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin). If you love Americana or alt-folk, this one’s for you!

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released June 5, 2006

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Shawn Waggoner began her music career in Austin, as the lead singer of the successful blues band, Blue Recluse. In '97, the band went on hiatus and Waggoner composed songs for her first cd, Contemplating Cacti. With a new focus on original, acoustic music, Waggoner teamed up with bassist David Farrell for three more cds. Each made its mark on the alternative-folk and Americana genres. ... more

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