Yankee Lady
Jesse Winchester / Jesse Winchester 1971


Thanks to Otto!!!


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  I lived with the decent folks
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In the hills of old Vermont
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  Where what you do all day
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Depends on what you want
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And I took up with a woman there
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Though I was still a kid
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 And I smile like the sun
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To think of the loving that we did

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She rose each morning and went to work
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And she kept me with her pay
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 I was making love all night
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And playing guitar all day
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And I got me apple cider and homemade bread
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To make a man say grace
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 And clean linens on my bed
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And a warm feet fire place

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Yankee lady so good to me,
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Yankee lady just a memory
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Yankee lady so good to me,
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Your memory that's enough for me

An autumn walk on a country road
And a million flaming trees
I was feeling uneasy
Cause there was winter in the breeze
And she said, "Oh Jesse, look over there,
The birds are southward bound
Oh Jesse, I'm so afraid
To lose the love that we've found."

CHORUS

I don't know what called to me
But I know that I had to go
I left that Vermont town
With a lift to Mexico
And now when I see myself
As a stranger by my birth
The Yankee lady's memory
Reminds me of my worth

CHORUS