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She goes a running after midnight
Feet pounding on the cool Kentucky clay
Got to cross the big Ohio
Freedom waters for a tired, hungry slave
Sheâs a night walker
A dead man talker
A Black-eyed girl running from the grave
Motherâs milk and heart a pounding
She goes running cross the cool Kentucky clay
Just a poor girl born in Galilee
Stayed in Bethlehem then lit out for a while
Heard the voices of the angels
Sent her running down the delta of the Nile
Sheâs a word-staker
A manâs-law-breaker
Virgin mother walks 400 miles
Ninety days and more a stranger
She goes running down the delta of the Nile
She sees the Dipper in the low sky
Holds a faded paper tight within her hand
Desert skies are mighty lonesome
If youâre headed for El Norte Rio Grande
Sheâs a dream chaser
A border town racer
Mestizo girl alone upon the land
Forty days a proud new mother
Sheâs headed for El Norte Rio Grande
And itâs three rivers of promise to cross
Three mothers in the wilds all but lost
Some are praised and some are scorned
Some are saved, some forlorn
Some find a bed, some find a crown of thorns
- Album:
- Thin Red Line
- Red Dog Ash