Emmylou Harris - Boulder To Birmingham Lyrics






I don't want to hear a love song
I got on this airplane just to fly
And I know there's life below
But all that it can show me
Is the prairie and the sky

And I don't want to hear a sad story
Full of heartbreak and desire
The last time I felt like this
It was in the wilderness and the canyon was on fire
And I stood on the mountain in the night and I watched it burn
I watched it burn, I watched it burn.

I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
I would hold my life in his saving grace.
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
If I thought I could see, I could see your face.

Well you really got me this time
And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive.
I have come to listen for the sound
Of the trucks as they move down
Out on ninety five
And pretend that it's the ocean
coming down to wash me clean, to wash me clean
Baby do you know what I mean

I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
I would hold my life in his saving grace.
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
If I thought I could see, I could see your face.





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  1. C.... B....

    Still a great song

  2. F.... H....

    Tears in my eyes

  3. D.... S....

    Still the most breathtakingly beautiful women that ever strapped on a guitar and stepped onto a stage❤️

    D.... S....

    Along with Joni Mitchell and Alison Krauss

  4. R.... M....

    Your are beautiful Emmylou in song and being!

  5. M.... R....

    This song is transcendent in its beauty and speaks to the goodness of Emmylou's heart and to her view of Gram Parsons. Despite his myriad problems, she sees what she has called "a very wonderful person."

  6. c.... ....

    I would rub my asshole in the bosom of Abraham

  7. J.... Q....

    I know there’s life below me but all that you can show me is a brandy and the sky

  8. D.... W....

    Who the hell are the 7 morons who gave this thumbs down?

  9. G.... G....

    My favorite? Red dirt girl.

  10. R.... A....

    Astonishing....Graham inspired, but pure Emmylou....

  11. J.... H....

    One of Emmylou's best songs ever. A masterpiece.

  12. R.... ....

    Masterpiece of country-rock.

  13. C.... c....

    Always loved this Song but never really grasped it.... Now I do ... I'd walk from Wisconsin to California just to see her face again .... No much more far........

  14. R.... W....

    One of my all time favourites along with "Leaving Louisiana"

  15. t.... s....

    My favourite Emmy song

    t.... s....

    Mine as well.

  16. E.... D....

    High Fidelity

  17. T.... T....

    It's so obvious. She loved Gram so much. Her life was forevermore changed when he died.

  18. S.... J....

    Who are the two idiots that took the trouble of giving this a thumbs down. This is a masterpiece.!!!

    S.... J....

    No one should give thumbs down on Emmy Lou

    S.... J....

    Cross eyed folk perhaps

  19. B.... B....

    To understand this song watch the interview with Linda Ronstadt. She was staying with Linda at her house after the death of Gram Parson. Linda said she was crying a lot. One day she played a song she had just written "Boulder to Birmingham"
    It's a beautiful song dealing with a devastating loss.

    B.... B....

    Beautiful song
    Great sentiment

    B.... B....

    @joseph french I saw that interview ... L.R. said E.H. asked her "Do you think it's any good?" Quite an understatement ... A classic'''''' Although always wondered about the line " stood in the canyon and watched it burn" Although anyone who knows anything about E.H. Must know this song is about Parsons as is Tulsa Queen .

    B.... B....

    I watched a documentary last night that said the same

  20. j.... s....

    It's also on her 1975 LP Pieces Of the Sky