Acoustic

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Acoustic Lyrics
1.How Long?


2.Cupid's Got A Gun

So many lonely people looking for a way
To fill the empty nights when the phone won't ring
We all want to fall in love, hear the birds sing.
So if you're feeling desparate, don't give up
Times, they are a changing and so is your luck.

Cupid's got a gun
Arrows wouldn't do
He's got the power love for you
It's a big big love
His aim is true
Don't try to run
Cupid's got a gun.

Don't you just sit there feeling sorry for yourself
Reading romance novels and laying around the house
Dreaming that the good parts were written just for you
Then waking up saying this will never come true
Stop your hesitating go out tonight
You know he's out there waiting
To get you in his sights.

Cupid's got a gun
Arrows wouldn't do
He's got the power love for you
It's a big big love
His aim is true
Don't try to run
Cupid's got a gun.

It's a real tough job helping people fall in love
That old bow and arrow just wasn't strong enough
Cupid wasn't stupid, he knew just what to do
Now he's loaded for love,
He's coming for you.


3.Sarah In The Summer

I've driven this road as a stranger
I've driven this road as a friend
I've driven this road as a slack-jawed tourist
And i'm drivin on it once again
It might be cold and long and lonely
But she's waiting on the other side
And i'm an hour closer to sarah in the summer
And joyfully i ride.

I climb through georgetown, silver plume
The tunnel at lovelands' cove/cold?
The lake on the left is a little low
Route 9 is the breckenridge road??
There's a sign right below copper mountain
Telling wheter independence runs free/where the weather &
independence run free
And i'm an hour closer to sarah in the summer
And that's where i wanna be

In the evening shadow of red butte
Up the lane from the slaughter house bridge
The first cabin the moonlight strikes as it crests the cleft in
hunter crick ridge
Up frombetween old red and smuggler
Rising high on a piano bench there
And i'm an hour closer to sarah in the summer
And what lies between beware
What lies between, beware

And the red sandstone sentinels rising high on either side
As i follow the eagle valley
Through the canyon where the saints reside
In mt snowmass's majesty south
And east out of glennwood springs
And i'm an hour closer to sarah in the summer
Where the roaring river sings
Where the roaring river sings.


4.Let It Roll


5.Hello, I Am Your Heart


6.Love Will Find A Way


7.Trying Times

Trying times when you pack it all up
Trying times when you lose somebody you love

The sun's coming up
Wishing i could jump
Got a pain in my heart
I didn't know nohing


8.This Train Keeps Rolling Along

All aboard in montreal
I heard the conductor call
That old engine heaved a sigh
Suitcases and shuffling feet
I found my way to a windo seat
I love to watch the world go by
Made friends with a family
Bound for sault ste marie
They said good bye at sudbury junction
Guess i hated to see 'em go
Thought about 'em as it started to snow
Time stops for nothing or no one

This train keeps rollin along
From here to the great beyond
Black somke, pistons churn
Steel rails, big wheels turn
This train keeps rolling along

Across the endless plrairie land
Mighty buffalo used to stand
The cree and the blackfoot lived and died
??? the rockies, nestled in the trees,
I fell in love with lake louise
Smiling with her sparkling emerald eyes

Soon we'll reach the sea
And there i'll stand
With nothing but the blue between me and japan
Now i'm at the end of the line,
Out of track, out of time,
Conductor makes his final round
All the people and places past
They went by just a little too fast
How i wishi could've slowed this engine down.

This train keeps rollin along
From here to the great beyond
Black somke, pistons churn
Steel rails, big wheels turn
This train keeps rolling along


9.One Sure Honest Line

I made a living writing lover's dream words,
I found the notes to hang them on
I fround a way to play with the meaning of things
And i came up with a couple good songs.
And so i oughta have an easy answer,
I oughta have some pretty things to say,
But i haven't found the combination
That'll make you change your mind and wanna stay.

So i wish i had one sure honest line to say over and over again
Sung in tune and time to a melody pure
One clear everpresent pulse in the pocket
And i'm on the radio so you'll know that i am yours

Listen to the laughter of the children
She scratched on the back of a bill
As we climbed past the road to the schoolhouse
On the burnt crust browning pan hill
To where they don't take sad for an answer,
A place at the corner of your heart,
Where music meets with memories,
So you can recognize the feeling from the start

How i wish i had one sure honest line to say over and over again
Sung in tune and time to a melody pure
One clear everpresent pulse in the pocket?
I'm on the radio so you'll know that i am yours
They'll put us on the radio so you'll know that i am yours


10.Badlands

Fresh scrubbed baby, momma's kiss on his cheek
Steps off the greyhound with money for a week.
A wild eyed innoncent, he knows no fear
It takes more than heroes to survive down there.

In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
Well if you've got the bullets...
They'll remember your name down there.

Can't drink the water, can't breathe the air
They said it was exciting, never said it was fair
You're just another singer in a pilgrim's suit
Chased by the lines till you learn to shoot

In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
If you've got those black diamonds
They'll remember your name down there.

Badlands, well there's always a faster hand in the west
Room around town for only the best
One false step and you'll be cut down
For some it's paradise, others it's hell.

In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
Yeah, if you've got the bullet
They'll remember your name down there.
They'll remember your name down there.
They'll remember your name down there.

You're gonna need some protection.
You had better make your connections.


11.The Broken Road

The broken road

I set out on the narrow way
Many years ago,
Hoping i would find true love
Along the broken road.
I got lost a time or two,
Wiped my brow, kept pushing through
I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you.

Every long-lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart, they were just northern stars,
Pointing me on my way, into your loving arms.
This much i know is true
That god blessed the broken road that led me straight to you

I think about the years i spent
I'd like to find the time i lost and give it back to you.
You just smile and take my hand; you've been there, you
understand,
It's all part of a greater plan that is coming true.

Every longlost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart, they were just falling stars,
Pointing me on my way, into your loving arms.
This much i know is true
That god blessed the broken road that led me straight to you