A Collection of Cowboy Junkies Lyrics

Version 3.0

Created by Steven and maintained by CJfan
Last updated on November 27, 1999

* Please note that although I've used direct transcriptions from the Junkies albums wherever possible, the lyrics to some of the traditional and "cover" songs were taken from other artist's recordings of them and may vary from Margo's interpretation.

• Shining Moon
• State Trooper
• Me and the Devil
• Decoration Day
• Baby Please Don't Go
• I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive
• Take Me
• Forgive Me
• Crossroads

The Trinity Session

• Mining for Gold
• Misguided Angel
• Blue Moon Revisisted (Song for Elvis)
• I Don't Get It
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
• To Love is To Bury
• 200 More Miles
• Dreaming My Dreams With You
• Working on a Building
• Sweet Jane
• Postcard Blues
• Walking After Midnight

The Caution Horses

• Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
• 'Cause Cheap is How I Feel
• Thirty Summers
• Mariner's Song
• Powderfinger
• Rock and Bird
• Witches
• Where Are You Tonight?
• Escape is So Simple
• You Will Be Loved Again

Black Eyed Man

• Southern Rain
• Oregon Hill
• This Street, That Man, This Life
• A Horse in the Country
• If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man
• Murder, Tonight, in the Trailer Park
• Black Eyed Man
• Winter's Song
• The Last Spike
• Cowboy Junkies Lament
• Townes' Blues
• To Live is To Fly

Pale Sun, Crescent Moon

• Crescent Moon
• First Recollection
• Ring on the Sill
• Anniversary Song
• White Sail
• Seven Years
• Pale Sun
• The Post
• Cold Tea Blues
• Hard to Explain
• Hunted
• Floorboard Blues

• Something More Beside You
• A Common Disaster
• Lay It Down
• Hold On To Me
• Come Calling (his song)
• Just Want To See
• Lonely Sinking Feeling
• Angel Mine
• Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy: Part II)
• Musical Key
• Speaking Confidentially
• Come Calling (her song)
• Now I Know

Miles From Our Home

• New Dawn Coming
• Blue Guitar
• Miles From Our Home
• Good Friday
• Darkling Days
• Hollow as a Bone
• Someone Out There
• The Summer of Discontent
• No Birds Today
• Those Final Feet
• At the End of the Rainbow ("hidden" track)

Rarities, B-Sides and Sad, Slow Waltzes

• I Saw Your Shoes
• Five Room Love Story
• Sad To See The Season Go
• If You Gotta Go, Go Now
• Love's Still There
• To Lay Me Down
• A Few Simple Words
• River Waltz
• Leaving Normal
• The Water is Wide
• My Father's House ("hidden" track)

Other B-Sides and Assorted Songs

• There's a House in the Forest
• Dead Flowers
• Captain Kidd
• Tired Eyes
• Ritual
• Lost My Driving Wheel
• In the Long Run
• Carmelita
• Let Me Call You Sweetheart
• Ooh Las Vegas

Songs Performed in Concert

• Bad Boy
• 32-20 Blues
• I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
• The Coast of Peru
• Hot Burrito #1 (I'm Your Toy)
• Lungs
• The Good and The Bad