Dan Fogelberg - Old Tennessee (1975)

Omdat ik  een onvoorwaardelijke fan ben van Dan Fogelberg, en omdat het zo mooi is....

"Old Tennessee" komt uit zijn album "Captured Angel" uit 1975. Een jaar later coverde zijn eigen backing band, met Dan op gitaar (!) de song op hun debuut album, "Fools Gold", misschien een van de mooiste platen van de West Coast. De hoge gitaar wordt gespeeld door Don Felder van the Eagles.

End of October
The sleepy brown woods seem to
Nod down their heads to the Winter
Yellows and grays paint the sad skies today
And I wonder when you're coming home
Woke up one morning
The wind through the window
Reminded me winter was just 'round the bend
Somehow I just did not see it was coming
It took me by surprise again

And I hear you're in San Francisco
Living with your sister who's a mother to be
And her husband's way down in Georgia
And I'm still in old Tennessee...
Wishing you'd come home to me

Life here is easy I'm sure you recall
How it's so warm and breezy
In the summer and the fall
But winter's upon me
And I've got no heat here
And I miss your fire so sweet
Dear I miss your fire so sweet

End of October
The sleepy brown woods seem to
Nod down their heads to the winter
Yellows and gray paint the sad skies today
And I wonder when you're coming home
I wonder when you're coming home
I wonder when you're coming home 

Dan Fogelberg

Fools Gold