'The Man Who Would Win Back Your Heart'

2016/07/01 14:19:17

jamesg1213

Been a long time, but here's a new Nettlesmith song;

The Man Who Would Win Back Your Heart

Tim Wilkinson - lead and backing vocals, banjaxe (banjo/resonator), percussion
Me - electric guitars, organ, mixing

The Man Who Would Win Back Your Heart - Tim Wilkinson

If I were a cowboy upon the great plains
Driving the beef before the age of the trains
And our trail it caught up with a travelling show
I'd join it to see where they'd go

If I were a ploughman so far from the sea
White seagulls are following my team and me
And one day the press-gang they took me away
I'd join Nelson's navy for a shilling a day

None of these things would I normally try
I'm just talking tall I'm just stretching my eye
But in search of clue I would leave all I know
If it helped me to find you I'd give it a go

And one day years from now I'd show up at your door
As a cowboy, a ploughman, a pirate for sure
Whatever it was I'd be dressed for the part
Of the man who would win back your heart

Imagine a steamboat in the days of Mark Twain
And I'm up on the bridge with him watching the rain
And the old pilot says 'Ain't you been here before?
Son, you should know every yard of this shore''

None of these things would I normally try
I'm just talking tall, I'm just stretching my eye
But in search of clue I would leave all I know
If it helped me to find you I'd give it a go

And one day years from now I'd show up at your door
As a cowboy, a ploughman, a pirate for sure
Whatever it was I'd be dressed for the part
Of the man who would win back your heart

Whatever it was I'd be dressed for the part
Of the man who would win back your heart

Look forward to any comments and critiques as always!