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Sunday Night Sad Song: Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris, 'Red Dirt Girl'

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Decatur Deb1/12/2015 9:47:38 am PST

re: #478 urbanmeemaw

Yes! I had that album. They also performed some of the soundtrack for How The West Was Won. And Judy Henske can belt!

Favorite Judy Henske, though High Flyin’ Bird was more my era:

Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Rapture

Amazingly good poetics:


Rapture (Henske/Yester)

Divers asleep
Dream of the deep
Closing over their heads
Lost comrades gather by their beds
“Her voice in the drowned bells
was tolling
In rapture we died
Waves o’er us rolling”

Pilots beware
the perilous air
Streaming under your wings
Her voice in the hot sun is calling
In rapture you die
Flying and falling

Lovers who lie
beneath the night sky
neither speak nor hear
in the perfect stillness
She is near
Her voice in the heart’s blood comes roaring
In rapture they die
Diving and soaring