This is one of my all time favorite Fred songs - reminds me of going to the sale barn in a battered '63 Ford one-ton. No seatbelts, all steel dashboard and my two brothers and I fighting for space. Two head in the back and four in the trailer - forty miles per hour never felt so dangerous.
Visit your local sale barn and get some pie. It’ll bring all those memories back. Lamenting all the Fred shows I’ve seen and missing the sadness that follows with relating so well. Love to ya
Rough Edges Fred Eaglesmith Cracks in your windshield, holes in your life, and you're tryin' to get home, before it gets light, and your old five ton truck don't run good no more, barely gets up those hills with your foot to the floor, and your horses are tired, your excuses are weak, and you ain't won a race since '73, but all through the night, the trailer just sways, 'cause an east wind, y'know always brings rain. Out on the highway, the big rigs still roll, out past your life and through your front door, lights on the skyline, signs on the road, you don't pick up your mail, you don't answer your phone, and your old friends are dead or they've all moved away, wild flowers grow over their graves, and the paper they throw at the end of the lane, 'cause an east wind y'know always brings rain. Down by the river the ole boys still ride, and the edges are rough as suicide, and the whiskey's got color and the cows feed on grass, where the windmills pump water and your checks don't go bad, your blankets are dirty, your eternity frayed, but all through the night, that trailer just sways, so round up those cattle and load up that train, 'cause an east wind y'know always brings rain
love Fred great toon thanks for posting just flew to Cali to see him in Feb now hese comming to Oregon so get to see him again , great toon and vid keep it up we need more fred vids to get him out there
Love that harmonica
God bless Fred and Tiff... wherever they are.
This is one of my all time favorite Fred songs - reminds me of going to the sale barn in a battered '63 Ford one-ton. No seatbelts, all steel dashboard and my two brothers and I fighting for space. Two head in the back and four in the trailer - forty miles per hour never felt so dangerous.
Visit your local sale barn and get some pie. It’ll bring all those memories back. Lamenting all the Fred shows I’ve seen and missing the sadness that follows with relating so well. Love to ya
always good to see fred.
Rough Edges
Fred Eaglesmith
Cracks in your windshield, holes in your life,
and you're tryin' to get home, before it gets light,
and your old five ton truck don't run good no more,
barely gets up those hills with your foot to the floor,
and your horses are tired, your excuses are weak,
and you ain't won a race since '73,
but all through the night, the trailer just sways,
'cause an east wind, y'know always brings rain.
Out on the highway, the big rigs still roll,
out past your life and through your front door,
lights on the skyline, signs on the road,
you don't pick up your mail, you don't answer your phone,
and your old friends are dead or they've all moved away,
wild flowers grow over their graves,
and the paper they throw at the end of the lane,
'cause an east wind y'know always brings rain.
Down by the river the ole boys still ride,
and the edges are rough as suicide,
and the whiskey's got color and the cows feed on grass,
where the windmills pump water and your checks don't go bad,
your blankets are dirty, your eternity frayed,
but all through the night, that trailer just sways,
so round up those cattle and load up that train,
'cause an east wind y'know always brings rain
Beautiful
love Fred great toon thanks for posting just flew to Cali to see him in Feb now hese comming to Oregon so get to see him again , great toon and vid keep it up we need more fred vids to get him out there
Thanks for posting this video! I love this version, wish he would play in Southern Oregon!!!
Thanks for posting these gems.