Yankee Lady-Jesse Winchester

[ti:Yankee Lady (LP Version)] [ar:Jesse Winchester] [al:The Best Of Jesse Winchester] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Yankee Lady - Jesse Winchester [00:11.26]I lived with the decent folks [00:13.51]In the hills of old Vermont [00:19.01]Where what you do all day [00:22.42]Depends on what you want [00:26.18]And I took up with a woman there [00:31.29]Though I was still a kid [00:36.45]And I smile like the sun [00:39.17]To think of the loving that we did [00:47.51]She rose each morning and went to work [00:50.84]And she kept me with her pay [00:56.38]I was making sweet love all night [00:59.70]And playing guitar all day [01:03.91]And I got apple cider and homemade bread [01:09.36]To make a man say grace [01:13.91]And clean linens on my bed [01:18.24]And a warm feet fire place [01:25.90]Yankee lady so good to me [01:30.25]Yankee lady just a memory [01:34.66]Yankee lady you are so good to me [01:39.15]Your memory that's enough for me [01:46.15]An autumn walk on a country road [01:49.79]And a million flaming trees [01:53.88]I was feeling uneasy [01:58.78]Cause there was winter in the breeze [02:02.43]And she said Oh Jesse look over there [02:08.05]The birds are southward bound [02:13.33]Oh Jesse I'm so afraid [02:16.91]To lose the love that we've found [02:24.61]Yankee lady so good to me [02:28.93]Yankee lady just a memory [02:31.32]Yankee lady so good to me [02:37.88]Your memory that's enough for me [02:40.47] [02:54.09]I don't know what called to me [02:57.63]But I know that I had to go [03:02.83]I left that Vermont town [03:06.52]With a lift to Mexico [03:08.29]And now when I see myself [03:15.28]As a stranger by my birth [03:20.76]The Yankee lady's memory [03:24.66]Reminds me of my worth [03:32.08]Yankee lady so good to me [03:36.59]Yankee lady just a memory [03:40.90]Yankee lady so good to me [03:45.44]Your memory that's enough for me