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Phoebe Snow 
Phoebe Snow (Utah Phillips) 
I saw her name on the side of a train Somewhere a long time ago; I don't know who she was, but I gave my love To someone called Phoebe Snow Like a bird on the wing I hear a voice sing As over the prairies I roll Well I'd give my life to spend one more night In the arms of my own Phoebe Snow. 
I climbed on board through a wide open door Just as she started to roll And I rode so light through the warm summer night In the arms of my own Phoebe Snow. Like a bird on the wing I hear a voice sing As over the prairies I roll Well I'd give my life to spend one more night In the arms of my own Phoebe Snow. 
(SPOKEN) I've spent many a night around the fire In a circle of stone silent men I've heard the sagebrush whistle and pop And the coffee boil up in the can. And the bottoms were filled with the cool river wind; The treetops chasin' the moon And I knew without asking to take my guitar And play up some slow, gentle tune. Well, I played up a face I used to know, And the song was the sound of the name And I knew without looking that every man there Was each of them feeling the same Then I played up so hands, so pale and small, With a touch just as light as the rain And I knew without looking that every man there Was each of them feeling the same Then I played up the booze and the holes in the shoes Of a man whose life is a cage And all the things done to make a man run: The hard luck, the failures of age. Then I stopped with a crash and we looked into the ash, 
Helpless with longing and rage. Now a travelling life might seem allright; A life without worry or care; You're always up and you're always out; You're always going somewhere But I tell you, my friend, it's not where you are, But your reason for being there. 
Then I awoke as the day broke And I gazed out over the plains Thinking as how I'm better off now From being in love with a train Like a bird on the wing I hear a voice sing As over the prairies I roll Well I'd give my life to spend one more night In the arms of my own Phoebe Snow. 
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