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Artist/Band: Emmylou Harris
Lyrics for Song: Bang the Drum Slowly
Lyrics for Album: Songbird: Rare Tracks And Forgotten Gems [2007]



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...


Album Lyrics: Songbird: Rare Tracks And Forgotten Gems [2007]


Emmylou Harris
"Songbird: Rare Tracks And Forgotten Gems [2007]"


1. Bright Morning Stars
2. When He Calls
3. If I Could Be There
4. Rough and Rocky
5. Sorrow in the Wind
6. Lonely Street
7. Brand New Dance
8. Ooh Las Vegas
9. How High the Moon
10. Ashes By Now
11. Racing in the Streets
12. Tulsa Queen
13. For No One
14. Heaven Ain't Ready for You Yet
15. My Songbird
16. Green Rolling Hills
17. Bang the Drum Slowly
18. Jordan
19. Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
20. When I Was Yours
21. Get Up John
22. Sweet Old World
23. Lost Unto This World
24. Cup of Kindness
25. All I Left Behind
26. Wondering
27. Waltz Across Texas Tonight