Yankee Lady (Live At The Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, May 26, 1977)-Jesse Winchester

[ti:Yankee Lady (Live At The Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, May 26, 1977)] [ar:Jesse Winchester] [al:Live At The Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, May 26, 1977] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Yankee Lady (Live At The Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, May 26, 1977) - Jesse Winchester [00:15.81]I lived with the decent folks [00:19.31] [00:20.25]In the hills of old Vermont [00:23.95] [00:27.66]Where what you do all day [00:31.37] [00:32.36]That depends on what you want [00:35.84] [00:37.79]And I took up with a woman there [00:43.58] [00:44.71]Though I was still a kid [00:48.38] [00:52.01]And I smile like the sun [00:54.76]To think of all the loving that we did [01:01.12] [01:07.35]She rose each morning and went off to work [01:11.39] [01:13.76]And she kept me with her pay [01:15.58] [01:19.05]I was making sweet love all night [01:22.63] [01:24.19]And playing this old guitar all day [01:27.19] [01:30.72]And apple cider and homemade bread word [01:35.43] [01:35.98]That would make a man kneel down he would say [01:38.91]Grace [01:39.33] [01:42.66]And clean linens on our bed [01:46.67] [01:48.14]And a warm feet fire place [01:51.25] [01:58.16]Yankee lady so good to me [02:01.77] [02:03.76]Yankee lady just a memory [02:06.84] [02:10.40]Yankee lady you was so good to me [02:13.57] [02:15.99]Your memories gonna have to do for me [02:19.61] [02:25.83]An autumn walk on a old country road [02:28.70] [02:30.95]With a million flaming trees [02:33.10] [02:36.94]I was feeling a little uneasy [02:39.79] [02:40.69]Because there was winter some chilln a breeze [02:45.00] [02:46.53]And she said oh while look Jesse look over there [02:53.24]I see birds are they are all southward bound [02:57.08] [03:00.45]Oh Jesse I'm so afraid [03:04.42] [03:04.98]We are going to lose all this love that we've found [03:09.00] [03:15.56]Yankee lady so good to me [03:18.81] [03:21.49]Yankee lady just a memory [03:25.01] [03:27.67]Yankee lady you was so good to me [03:30.75] [03:33.33]Your memories gonna have to do for me [03:36.85] [04:08.89]I don't know just what called to me [04:12.01] [04:13.07]But I know that I plain had to go [04:16.94] [04:20.48]And I left that little Vermont town [04:24.53] [04:25.39]To live down in sunny mexico [04:28.18] [04:32.92]And now when I can see my own self [04:35.87] [04:37.15]As a stranger by my birth [04:40.37] [04:43.76]Whit the yankee lady's old memory [04:47.31] [04:48.85]To remind me of my worth [04:52.37] [04:58.66]Yankee lady so good to me [05:01.77] [05:04.64]Yankee lady just a memory [05:07.42] [05:10.81]Yankee lady you was so good to me darling [05:16.37]Your memories gonna have to do for me