Deadwood-Nanci Griffith

[ti:Deadwood] [ar:Nanci Griffith] [al:The MCA Years: A Retrospective] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Deadwood - Nanci Griffith [00:44.48]Well the good times scratched a laugh [00:47.34]From the lungs of the young men [00:49.21] [00:50.52]In a Deadwood saloon [00:52.79]South Dakota afternoon [00:54.54] [00:56.02]And the old ones by the door [00:58.28]With their heads to their chests [01:00.44] [01:01.17]They told lies about whiskey [01:04.11]On a woman's breath [01:05.80] [01:09.68]Yes and some tell the story [01:12.84]Of young Mickey Free [01:13.77] [01:15.36]Who lost an eye to a buck deer [01:17.28] [01:18.29]In the Tongue River Valley [01:21.15]Oh and some tell the story of California Joe [01:25.07] [01:26.22]Who sent word through the Black Hills [01:28.24] [01:29.21]'There was a mountain of gold' [01:33.23] [01:34.45]And the gold she lay cold in their pockets [01:38.66] [01:40.61]And the sun she sets down on the trees [01:43.63] [01:46.08]And they thank the Lord for [01:48.81]The land that they live in [01:51.85]Where the white man does as he pleases [01:56.01] [02:03.13]Some flat shoed fool from the [02:06.32]East comes a runnin' [02:07.74] [02:08.65]With some news that he'd read [02:11.97]In some St Joseph paper [02:13.29] [02:13.89]And it was "Drinks all around" [02:15.25] [02:17.08]Cause the news he was tellin' [02:18.75] [02:19.87]Was the one they called Crazy [02:21.91] [02:22.60]Had been caught and been dealt with [02:26.62] [02:28.37]And the Easterner he read the [02:29.77]News from the paper [02:30.79] [02:33.75]And the old ones gathered closer [02:35.17]So's they could hear better [02:36.51] [02:39.64]"And it says here that Crazy Horse was killed [02:41.71]While he was trying to escape [02:43.18] [02:44.95]And it was some time last September and [02:47.83]It don't give the exact date" [02:49.79] [02:53.10]And the gold she lay cold in their pockets [02:56.85] [02:59.17]And the sun she sets down on the trees [03:02.08] [03:04.66]And they thank the Lord [03:06.91]For the land that they live in [03:10.29]Where the white man does as he pleases [03:14.73] [03:15.63]Where the white man does as he pleases [03:19.90] [03:44.27]Then the talk turned back to whiskey and women [03:48.38] [03:49.68]And cold nights on the plains Lord [03:52.78]And fightin' those Indians [03:54.08] [03:55.57]And the Easterner he says [03:56.67]He'll have one more 'fore he goes [03:58.70] [04:00.68]He gives the paper to the Crow boy [04:03.06] [04:03.69]Who sweeps up the floor [04:05.18] [04:08.75]And the gold still lay cold in their pockets [04:12.44] [04:14.83]And the sun still sets down on their trees [04:17.89] [04:20.15]And they thank the Lord for the land that they live in [04:25.88]Where the white man does as he pleases [04:29.54] [04:31.07]Where the white man does as he pleases [04:35.24] [04:36.58]Where the white man does as he pleases [04:41.04] [04:41.62]As he wants to as he pleases