Today’s song is Across the Great Divide by Kate Wolf. I am actually offering you two different YouTube versions. The first is the song sung by Kate Wolf and the other is another version of the same song sung by Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith.
I really like this song. It is a bit melancholy, but I enjoy the melody and the words. The lyrics are provided below so you can read them while listening to the song.
What do you think?
Lyrics to Across the Great Divide
I’ve been walkin’ in my sleep
Countin’ troubles ‘stead of countin’ sheep
Where the years went I can’t say
I just turned around and they’ve gone away
I’ve been siftin’ through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know
And it was one that happened so long ago
CHORUS:
It’s gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide
Now, I hear the owl a-callin’
Softly as the night was fallin’
With a question and I replied
But he’s gone across the borderline
CHORUS
The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day
It’s when the darkness rolls away
CHORUS x 2