Song For Townes

Song Lyrics

Song For Townes Make Good Rope Enough to Hang Myself Mileage The Girl with Mountain Dew Hair Georgia Moon

Song for Townes

By Jeremy Baldwin

January 1997

Inspired by Bob Dylan's "Song for Woody"

I'm out here a thousand miles from my home

Seeing a world I might never have known

If not for the light around you that shown

And the truth that you spoke that cut right to the bone

You'll never know how much you taught me

The beauty and danger that now I can see

Your death too soon it came

But your life was not lived in vain

Hey, Hey Townes Van Zandt I wrote you a song

About the old road we're both travelling on

I know its no good and it can't compare

But I can't seem to find you anywhere

Townes

Make Good

By Jeremy Baldwin

February 2001

The land I come from is serene and pretty

But I left my home to go to the city

I stole my grandma's Christmas stash

And caught the Greyhound with 13 dollars cash

When I finally arrived at the station

There was no one to meet me, no friend, no relation

the wind it was chilly and the people were cold

Lost in the city, 16 years old

CHORUS:

I thought I would make a livin'

Chasin' whiskey, wine and women

I thought I would (x3)

...make good

I met a girl and her name was Goldie

She sweet talked me, but then she rolled me

So I slept in the bushes by the river

But lay awake all night and shivered

I never woke up the next morning

When the found me, I was frozen

They took my body down to the city morgue

And laid me down in a cold, hard drawer

CHORUS

If the land you come from is serene and pretty

Take my advice don't you leave for the city...

Rope Enough to Hang Myself

By Jeremy Baldwin

April 2001

A bottle of whiskey and an old jack-knife

That's rope enogh to hang myself

Am I drunk enough to take your life ?

Why don't you find out yourself

It don't take much just an inch or two

and they'll take a mile

Don't you dare fire that gun

until you see them smile

CHORUS

If you want a job done right

you've got to do it yourself

Gimme, gimme, gimme enough rope

Oh, to hang myself

Katie Mae is a mighty good girl

but she made one mistake

She cheated on me with Bobby Earl

Now she's in the lake

I was down by the river when they came for me

I was fishing for trout

Three men with badges and guns

but I took them out

CHORUS

Now I'm sleeping out under the bridge

Man, it sure gets cold

I know my days are numbered now

I know I'll never grow old

CHORUS

Mileage

By Jeremy Baldwin

January 2003

CHORUS

They say that its the years that will catch you in the end

But I believe that its the mileage that will do you in

I was riding on an all night Russian train

Sat between a nun and a cossack, but I was feelin' no pain

I don't know where we were going or we we had been

But we all had our habits, if you know what I mean

When the sister and the cossack started to sing, it took me by surprise

They sounded just like George Jones and Tammy Wynette and I wiped the tears from my eyesCHORUS

A good man died out on the road all by himself

Me and the preacher were at his funeral, there weren't nobody else

His name was Lucky and sometimes he was

Roamed the rails from LaCrosse to Spokane just looking for a buzzLiving in troubled times where the wrong people dieIts hard for me to stay hopeful, but I gotta try

CHORUS

The Girl with Mountain Dew Hair

By Jeremy Baldwin

circa Fall 1994

I hopped into my pick-up

Lookin' to pick a chick up

What kind I did not care

That's when I spied her

I could not deny her

The girl with mountain dew hair

I bought her a Moon Pie

And said with a sigh

"I'm lost, but I don't know where"

She put a smile on her face

And said, "How about my place?"

I said, "I do declare"

And now I'm in love

With a green-haired angel from above

With the girl with mountain dew hair

And when I awoke

I had a smoke

The hangover was a bear

She was gone

I looked on her lawn

But she was nowhere

She was out of sight

But at least I had one night

With the girl with mountain dew hair

Georgia Moon

By Jeremy Baldwin

circa Fall 1995

When I was a boy

My Grandpa used to take me

to those Georgia hills

He taught me to fish

He taught me to make whiskey

In a wood burning still

CHORUS

Shine on, Georgia Moon

You come so fast

You are gone too soon

Shine on, Georgia Moon

Something about you just makes me swoon

Grandpa used to taste every batch

WIth his old cracked lips

He'd say, "This one here is my best"

While I cut up more woodchips

CHORUS

Georgia Moon, your taste is so sweet

And your body is so divine

Georgia Moon, I do believe

Your love is making me blind

CHORUS

When I finally pass away

For me don't you mourn

Just lay my body down in my grave

With a full jar of corn

CHORUS