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http://youtu.be/RCj_XmmGsWI

She writes at the heart-string level then rips the heart out by the roots. She has several hooks in this one.

Her guitarist, Nina, is absolutely marvelous. On "Great Divide" is probably the best example of Nina's talent.

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Don -

Thanks! Appreciate the chance to listen to some mighty fine songwriting... I remember writing those kinds of story songs - long ago.. We don't get to hear that kind enough anymore.

And... that's a lot of words to remember!



Gray-haired and flint-eyed, his sunburned face lined
Grandpa was a man of few words
He had a way of not wanting to say
Any more than he thought would be heard

The long years of living, day-to-day giving
Had carved out a map on his face
With little to lose, he'd learned how to choose
And his choices were easy to trace

He had the eyes of a painter
Heart of a maker of songs
His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone

From a long line of teachers, white Baptist preachers
He was born with an Indian will
His quiet dark eyes, reading the light
As he rode in the low Osage hills

His school was the prairie, the sage, the wild berry
The quail, the wide open sky
The cottonwood thicket by the slow rolling river
The Redbud and the hot cattle drive

He had the eyes of a painter
Heart of a maker of songs
His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone

There were days filled with thinking, nights with the drinking
For a lost love that raged like a storm
Oh, but how his eyes smiled, when he'd talk to a child
The rough hands so gentle and warm

His strong arms were brown, where the long sleeves
Rolled down, on his faded blue cotton shirt
When times got hard, he'd go out in the yard
And he'd cuss away some of his hurt

He had the eyes of a painter
Heart of a maker of songs
His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone

Now the garden's grown dusty, hand axe lies rusty
The door's banging hard in the wind
Grandpa's store is closed down, like most of the town
And it won't be open again

And the big white car, sits out in the yard
Of the house he built solid and true
Oh, but I see his eyes, burning tonight
Like the stars in the sky he once knew

He had the eyes of a painter
Heart of a maker of songs
His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone

His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone

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Floyd, I was mistaken that Kate only left us 30 songs. She was extremely prolific. Here's a novelty song where her guitarist, Nina Gerber, shows her stuff. It's called "Picture Puzzle".

http://youtu.be/GWSN_18O_M0

Bob Flatpicker will get a kick outa this too. Bobert?

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