A Sampler of Gram Parsons Song Lyrics

GRAM PARSONS AND EMMYLOU HARRIS

LUXURY LINER

Luxury liner
forty tons of steel
if I don't find my baby now
I guess I never will
I've been a lost soul for a long long time
I've been around
Everybody oughta to know what's on my mind
You think I'm lonesome so do I
so do I

Well I'm the kind of guy who likes to make a livin running round
And I don't need a stranger to let me know my baby's let me down
You think I'm lonesome so do I
so do I

Luxury liner
forty tons of steel
no one in this whole wide world
Can change the way I feel
I've been a lost soul for a long long time
I've been around
Everybody oughta to know what's on my mind

You think I'm lonesome so do I
so do I

HICKORY WIND

In South Carolina there are many tall pines
I remember the oak tree that we used to climb
But now when I'm lonesome, I always pretend
That I'm getting the feel of hickory wind

I started out younger at most everything
All the riches and pleasures, what else could life bring?
But it makes me feel better each time it begins
Callin' me home, hickory wind

It's hard to find out that trouble is real
In a far away city, with a far away feel
But it makes me feel better each time it begins
Callin' me home, hickory wind

Keeps callin' me home, hickory wind

IN MY HOUR OF DARKNESS

In my hour of darkness
In my time of need
Oh, Lord grant me vision
Oh, Lord grant me speed

Once I knew a young man
Went driving through the night
Miles and miles without a word
With just his high-beam lights
Who'd have ever though they'd build such
a deadly Denver bend

To be so strong, to take as long as
it would till the end
In my hour of darkness
In my time of need
Oh, Lord grant me vision
Oh, Lord grant me speed

Another young man safely strummed his
silver string guitar
And he played to people everywhere
Some say he was a star
But he was just a country boy,
his simple songs confess
And the music he had in him,
so very few possess

In my hour of darkness
In my time of need
Oh, Lord grant me vision
Oh, Lord grant me speed
Then there was an old man
Kind and wise with age
And he read me just like a book and he
never missed a page
And I loved him like my father
And I loved him like my friend
And I knew his time would shortly come
but I did not know just when

In my hour of darkness
In my time of need
Oh, Lord grant me vision
Oh, Lord grant me speed
Oh, Lord grant me vision
Oh, Lord grant me speed

"Hickory Wind" words and music by Gram Parker and Buck Buchanon, "In My Hour of Darkness" words and music by Gram Parker and Emmylou Harris.