As In Those Early Days
From the Album As In Those Early Days
As in those early days
Rosin flying off that bow
Broken picks, guitar strings
Out on the open road
Somewhere in Montana
On the wide Nebraska plains
In the Lone Prairie Schooner
As in those early days
As in those early days
Songs pore out in rhyme
Through a portal from a place
Beyond the sands of time
Without money for the toll
Played some old fiddle tune
Then sang them one more song
After they waved us on through
As in those early days
Busted down in Elko
Singing for tramp miners
Working down below
Risking their lives
For contract pay
To feed their families
As in those early days
Crack out that fiddle and them guitars
Don’t really matter who you are
Black Eyed Susan, Strawberry Roan
Need to find my way back home
As in those early days
Like a cactus flower in bloom
From the Hard Rock Inn
To the Papal Creek saloon
To the barnyard dance
To those who took us in
Who often had less
Then what they had to give
Crack out that fiddle and them guitars
Don’t really matter who you are
Black Eyed Susan, Strawberry Roan
Need to find my way back home
As in those early days
Smooth and Easy
Texas Roy, Fiddlin’ Pete
Dubious and me
Plus New York Joe
That boy from Iowa
Billy the Kid
As in those early days
Crack out that fiddle and them guitars
Don’t really matter who you are
Black Eyed Susan, Strawberry Roan
Need to find my way back home
As in those early days
On the John Muir Trail
In the High Sierra’s
After riding some rusty rail
Across the Great Divide
Looking down some river gorge
From the top of the Rockies
To those North Pacific Shores
Crack out that fiddle and them guitars
Don’t really matter who you are
Black Eyed Susan, Strawberry Roan
Need to find my way back home
As in those early days
We took it slow
If only I knew then
What I now know
After all these years
I wouldn’t change a thing
Always one more road to travel
One more song sing
Crack out that fiddle and them guitars
Don’t really matter who you are
Black Eyed Susan, Strawberry Roan
Need to find my way back home
Words & Music by Larry Long
Copyright Larry Long 2020 / BMI
Additional Verse:
As in those early days
Smooth and Easy
Texas Roy, Fiddlin’ Pete
Dubious and me
Plus New York Joe
And that boy from Iowa
Billy the Kid
As in those early days
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